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Modest rev of the open source office suite has welcome new features, but old peeves still linger
Sacha Labourey, founder and president of CloudBees, on why PaaS matters
The UEFI boot loader can allow independent Linux distributions to run on Windows 8 machines
Libcurl 7.29.0 addresses a critical remote code execution vulnerability found in a wide range of desktop, Web, and mobile applications
A seemingly unassuming court hearing today could be the beginning of the end of software patents as we know them
Open source is keeping pressure on Microsoft with new release of LibreOffice productivity suite. It took a village to build it
Rigorous input testing, passwords, encryption -- 17 ways to write secure code
The two major open source projects are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead
By implementing Git in its developer tools, Microsoft is using GPL-licensed software -- and perhaps ending its war on open source
Cascading simplifies Twitter's MapReduce operations in Scala, Clojure, and Jython