[ad_1] About the author Opensource.com – Opensource.com publishes stories about creating, adopting, and sharing open source solutions. Follow us on Twitter @opensourceway. There is a way to help companies pay for open source software. Open source has come a long way, but the “free rider” problem still exists. In a lightning talk at All Things…

[ad_1] Open source continues to drive rapid innovation in the 3D printing industry. This makes sense if you stop and think about it—a 3D printer exists to make other things. Combining that philosophy with free software and open source hardware helps other people participate in improving the objects that it makes, and in making the…

[ad_1] Over the past few years, interest in both civilian and commercial use of drones has continued to grow rapidly, and drone hardware sits at the top of many people’s holiday wish lists. Even just within the civilian side of things, the list of unmanned aerial devices that fit the moniker of drone seems to…

[ad_1] Animation is a robust field with a large number of specialties and an even larger number of tools for creating a particular look or style. In the past two months, I’ve covered Krita Animation for hand-drawn digital cel animation and StopGo for stop motion animation. There are many more animation applications out there, not the least…

[ad_1] Everything has a season, and as organizations age—communities, charities, companies, churches and more—they face similar diseases of time. These are emergent patterns of failure that arise not from mistakes but from the consequences of earlier success. In open source, we are seeing the same patterns emerge; this should not be a surprise. Some of…

[ad_1] So you have a Raspberry Pi, or you’re thinking of getting one, and you want to know how to get started and how to become a master user of one. The Raspberry Pi is a single board computer, meaning that in many ways it’s a regular PC, except that everything that makes up the…

[ad_1] Operating systems don’t quite date back to the beginning of computing, but they go back far enough. Mainframe customers wrote the first ones in the late 1950s, with operating systems that we’d more clearly recognize as such today—including OS/360 from IBM and Unix from Bell Labs—following over the next couple of decades. An operating…

[ad_1] If you’re reading this article, odds are good that you’re not only familiar with the command line on your computer system, but that you’re quite comfortable using it to the exclusion of the graphical interface. I understand—I’ve been using the command line since that was the only option in the computing world, and even…

[ad_1] In the early days of the open source movement, a lot of the attention was on operating systems, and later on large content management systems. These days, containers are mentioned regularly even in mainstream news outlets. The big tech stories are great, but they miss the other great activity in the niches of the…

[ad_1] Peer-to-peer marketplaces have been booming, and PwC predicts the market will go from $15 billion in 2013 to $355 billion in 2025. This means that a lot of marketplaces will be developed in the next years. However, until recently, you didn’t have many choices if you wanted to create a marketplace like Airbnb, Blablacar,…