As an avid desktop user of linux, I'm very familiar with many of the open source scientific and professional software suites that run on Linux, however, at the university research department I work in ...

A decade or two ago, enterprise IT was dominated by proprietary software companies that often dismissed open source as a fringe movement, many raising concerns around its security and reliability. A ...

Proprietary software is owned by a single entity and protected by copyright laws. It is usually sold for a profit, and its source code is kept confidential, meaning that users are not allowed to ...