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 ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

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 ...

Creative Commons posts today that Caltech economics professor Preston McAfee has published a complete Introduction to Economic Analysis textbook under a Creative Commons license. Why? McAfee writes: ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

Agile software development practices make extensive use of various open source components to help increase productivity, but vulnerabilities are continuously discovered in their various components.

The co-founder of Databricks, a leading data and AI technology company, recently emphasized the need for the United States to ...

Asay: Everything would be licensed under an OSI-approved license, and preferably only a very few: MPL, L/GPL, and Apache. We’d compete on the basis of serving customers, not on our acumen in locking ...

Customize content and workflows with HubSpot CMS software’s unique developer resources. Gain access to a variety of packages and licenses for open source software. HubX Asset Copier is a Chrome ...