You might not think about open systems on a daily basis, but the truth is, you’re surrounded by them. Decades ago, the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created ...

A system that allows third parties to make products that plug into or interoperate with it. For example, the PC is an open system. Although the fundamental standards are controlled by Microsoft, Intel ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...