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In today’s world of agile software development and fast release cycles, developers increasingly rely on third-party libraries and components to get the job done. Since many of those libraries come ...

When you manage some 20,000 books, 2,000 videos and about 1,000 TVs, VCRs and carts, a card catalog system doesn’t cut it anymore. So Patricia McGreal, library director at Chicago’s Mother McAuley ...

The King County Library System’s switch to nonproprietary software put the system at the forefront of a national movement to free libraries from the poor service and high costs some feel they are ...

The Software Heritage project aims to "collect, organise, preserve and make easily accessible the source code of all software that is publicly available." Calling itself the "Software Wikipedia," the ...