For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

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 ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

Open-source software powers the majority of today’s businesses. An estimated 70% to 90% of modern software solutions use a code base made up of open-source components, according to 2022 data from the ...

Since its founding in 2005, Open Invention Network (OIN) has been the only organization focused on mitigating patent risk in open source software (OSS). Its efforts have shielded the open source ...

The news underscores how vulnerable open-source software can risk impacting an entire software ecosystem, like it did with the Apache Log4j 2 flaw in 2021. It doesn’t help that open-source projects ...

Open-source medical software has been around for over 30 years. Unless you are in healthcare IT, however, chances are you’ve never even heard of it. But that’s poised to change. With the passage of ...

SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lineaje, a leader in continuous software supply chain security management, today unveiled Open-Source Manager (OSM). The comprehensive, first-of-its-kind solution ...

It’s nice to think we do, or that we should, but the history of software is an ongoing blend of proprietary and open source. It seems to work. There’s little reason to think AI will be any ...