You pay a premium for Photoshop, Windows, and macOS—but they wouldn't exist without free, open-source building blocks ...

Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary this month as the internet’s most reliable knowledge source. Yet behind the ...

The Internet has given society so much. We can find out whatever information we need, share news with friends in an instant and even keep up with an onslaught of cute animal photos (yeah, we both know ...

Keynoting at a Washington symposium on open technologies for K-12 education, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales cautioned against the "fallacy of truth" and said that collaborative knowledge products like ...

The Wikimedia Foundation plans to launch an editable, video encyclopedia to complement its text-based online encyclopedia. Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has grown at an astounding rate, with ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...