Supply chain security is rapidly emerging as a material risk for enterprise software buyers. Yet, despite best efforts from regulators to hold software publishers accountable, enterprise buyers ...

COMMENTARY--The International Telecommunications Union's World Summit on the Information Society (or WSIS for short, because we need more acronyms in the world) was last week. The conference was ...

We have been living through another cold war. Not geo-political — digital. Open-source software versus commercial software has long been on the brink of going nuclear, fought in the shadows with ...

If Richard Stallman achieves his dream, all software will be freely shared, altered and distributed. When he began his one-person mission in 1984, critics dismissed Stallman as someone simply tilting ...

Wondering whether you should use proprietary software like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Windows or open-source platforms like GIMP and Linux? Deciding between the two isn't easy. Both proprietary ...

I was fortunate to be asked by my friend, Jon Williams, to speak at Wednesday's New York CTO Club, a gathering of dozens of CTOs from a range of interesting (and some quite large) enterprises. The ...

Commercial software code bases are significantly more secure than Open Source, according to the latest Coverity scan open source report. Static analysis defect density scans by the software quality ...

As you can imagine I get asked by all types of companies and individuals to look at software. In fact, I probably get more requests to look at software than a lot of people even get email. And there's ...

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Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, possibly the most popular of all Linux distributions, is asking its users what new, proprietary programs they’d like to see as optional software in Ubuntu. Note, ...

If you've never read Edward Gibbon's classic, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, you really should. I used Gibbon heavily in my Masters thesis, The Rise and Fall of American Hegemony, and find ...