The Zerowriter Ink is an upcoming E Ink typewriter/word processor that fits into the growing (but still very niche) category of distraction-free writing devices. It combines a mechanical keyboard with ...

Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software suite. Using OpenOffice may save your business money, but if your company has already installed Microsoft Office, you can ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Perens: The biggest problem facing open source, and software in general, is software patenting. Copyright is sufficient to protect the proprietary software folks, but ...

LaTeX or Word? For physicists and mathematicians, the choice is obvious. But for scientists in other fields the merits of LaTeX have largely gone unnoticed. The open-source software system — used to ...