Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: "Hey, let's see what the open source world has to offer." Case in point: ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

Open source is now the standard for the software industry. Proprietary software is no longer the Goliath it once was. As the demand for more transparency yet better security increases, the challenges ...

The concept of open-source software (OSS) is to share the source code for free with future users. So what happens when companies use the free code of others to develop their own code? Scott Thiel ...

After a series of entries about security threats from employees, I’d like to turn to something completely different: security issues relating to open source software. For those of you unfamiliar with ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

According to a recent report by Forrester Research, 56 percent of Global 2500 IT executives surveyed said their companies were using open-source software--that is, software in which the source code is ...

Dina Biagio of Spoor & Fisher explores the impact of open-source software on technology development and highlights the tension between collaborative innovation and traditional intellectual property ...

Open source looks eerily like proprietary software in building products, not solutions, for end customers. We need to open up more of our software to allow for integration between projects. Matt Asay ...

There’s a long standing argument over the differences between “open-source” software and “free” software. But, a more common error outside of software ...