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Eben Moglen, the longstanding legal counsel for the Free Software Foundation, became interested in computers at the age of 12. By 14, he was making money from writing computer programs. "I paid for my ...

Open source has displaced free software in the broad open-source movement because it enables businesses and individuals to focus on code, not ideology. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who ...

If you're a student, you may have to use several different software programs for various purposes. Apps for taking notes during class, programs to edit photos for an assignment or word processors to ...

Unfortunately for Oregon men’s basketball (4-4, 0-1 Big Ten), this four game skid has been in the making for the duration of the early season. In... Computer users may spend hundreds of dollars to ...

In August 1991, a student at the University of Helsinki posted a request to an Internet discussion group asking for help on a project to build a free computer operating system (OS). Linus Torvalds ...

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...