When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

Or, rather, not what it means, but that vendors should figure out a consistent definition of what it means so as not to confuse buyers. Fair enough.According to Gartner, the current debate among open ...