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 ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history, is getting ...

Open source code for commercial software applications is ubiquitous, but so is the risk Your email has been sent It was almost exactly one year ago that experts found ...

As open source software grows more popular, and important, developers face an existential question: How to make money from something you give away for free? The Open Source Initiative standards body ...

David Murphy wrote a piece over on MaximumPC on Friday titled, “Open Source? Who Cares!” Murphy covers a number of topics that speak to what is holding back open source adoption. I don’t see open ...

A case for pardoning the Samourai developers: correcting a misapplied law and protecting the future of non-custodial, ...

The text editor is the most critical tool in a programmer's arsenal, acting as the daily workbench, primary interface, and ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

Nearly 60% of all codebases used by enterprises contain at least one vulnerability from open source components, according to the "Open Source Security and Risk Analysis" (OSSRA) report, published by ...

New open-source platform provides scale, cryptographic identity, permissions, and tamper-proof audit trails for autonomous ...

If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren’t challenging enough, app makers are increasingly experiencing the consequences of software ...

Toyota, Honda, and Mazda are building a new open-source car platform that runs everything from entertainment to navigation - ...