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 ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

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 ...

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

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 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 ...

A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping. By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac has written about the ...

The European Commission (EC) has opened a ' call for evidence ' (via LWN.net) to inform the "European Open Digital Ecosystem ...

Two years ago, the joint government-private sector response to the Log4j vulnerability that spawned 800,000 attacks worldwide led to the Enduring Security Framework for federal agencies adopting open ...

Since Russian troops invaded Ukraine more than three years ago, Russian technology companies and executives have been widely sanctioned for supporting the Kremlin. That includes Vladimir Kiriyenko, ...

The highly respected Open Source Initiative, which has a reputation for being one of the most prominent stewards of open-source software, has finally come up with an official definition on what makes ...