Community News and Articles
OpenChain Offers Open Source Specification, Education, and Conformance
OpenChain Specification
01.05.2017
What makes software open source? What obligations does using a free license involve? Answers to such questions are available online but require research to find – or did until recently.
How Free Software Got Its Fonts
A History of Open Source Fonts
14.06.2016
With the advent of free software for non-programmers, users ran into a licensing dilemma in a world of proprietary fonts.
Crowd Supply Boosts Open Hardware
Crowd Supply
06.10.2015
A small crowdfunding site is helping to boost the growth of open hardware businesses.
The League of Moveable Type
Open Source Fonts
18.11.2014
The Free Font Movement is transforming free software, one character at a time.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice: comparing the community health
Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog
25.10.2014
Snowdrift.coop
The Funding Dilemma
21.10.2014
Snowdrift.coop aims to solve some of the problems facing free software funding by linking the amount of an individual pledge to the number of donors willing to share the financial commitment.