In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

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.

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 ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

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 ...

Hidden dependencies, social engineering attacks, and the complexity of foundation models can all contribute tothe insecure use of open-source software in 2025. Open-source software is common ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

Meta-funded study touts the benefits of open source AI, but some critics say its own Llama models don’t meet open source standards. A Meta-commissioned study has found that open source artificial ...

We talk about open source software in the wrong way. The conversation always comes back to cost savings, licensing fees and avoiding vendor lock-in. These things matter, but they're not why open ...

As an open source-first company, Bloomberg believes it is imperative to be an active adopter, contributor, and funder of the open source software ecosystem. Open source powers everything from ...

The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being shaped by open source, which has been driving progress and innovation in the field, according to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the ...