“Open source” is a hot buzzword today. It’s important to understand free software is still subject to a license just like conventional shrinkwrapped packages. The big difference is these licenses ...

Have you uninstalled Windows from your computer lately, reinstalled it and then realized that you did not have the product license keys? Maybe you’ve lost your product licensing key and cannot ...

At times you may want to recover your Windows and Office product license keys along with keys of other software or games installed on your Windows computer. While you can always find your Windows ...

Windows licenses cost a lot—painfully so. Paying $139 for Windows 11 Home or $200 for Windows 11 Pro feels expensive when Linux is free. That much money can easily swallow a third of a budget PC build ...

If you used a keygen or crack to activate a license for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware premium product protection, then hurry up and jump on Malwarebytes Amnesty program to get a legit key for MBAM premium ...

It's time we corrected a common misperception: There's no law against selling free software. Really -- read GNU's General Public License (see sidebar). In fact, Free Software Foundation president ...

Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. This may ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...