Law professors and academic-library groups are asking a federal appeals court here to modify a new ruling to make it clear that established copyright provisions, like fair use, sometimes trump ...

The SCO Group confirms that three more companies--Computer Associates, Leggett & Platt, and Questar--have obtained its license for running Linux. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system that’s emulated within another operating system. You could run Windows within a MacBook as a virtual machine, or even Windows within Windows. Because of ...

What just happened? John Deere is one of the most serious offenders when it comes to forcing customers into a technology walled garden. As it turns out, the company provides very little support for ...

The U.S. Department of Energy spent $4.1 million more than necessary during the last five years to acquire and maintain desktop software, according to a report by Gregory Friedman, the department’s ...