To many, free open source software and Microsoft Windows seem to be mutually exclusive. After all, the open source development model is most closely associated with the Linux OS and, to a lesser ...

Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems. The ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

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 ...

A new report out today from Sonatype Inc. has revealed that open-source software adoption is at a multitrillion-request scale, with ecosystems such as JavaScript and Python leading the charge. The ...