At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source. This ...

There are several riffs on the original ‘free as in speech, not free as in beer’ distinction as a way of explaining open source. I’ve been saying ‘free as in puppy’ for years and I coined ‘free as in ...

Any game that is assembled from open-source software and allows the public to download its source code is considered an open-source game. To put it another way, an open-source game can be downloaded ...

What do Wikipedia, Creative Commons and open-source software have in common? Aside from the fact that they are all powered by collaborative efforts, private businesses reap the benefits in the form of ...

Few concepts inspire innovation in software development like open source. The open source paradigm empowers developers at all levels to participate, collaborate, create, refine and support their ideas ...

For many years now, there has been a trend toward open source in the field of system development. It can be seen in software libraries for the product itself as well as in development tools. A clear ...

As of September 20, 2026, it was reported that Google had used code from other open-source projects in 228 files almost verbatim while removing the names of the three original authors. While promoting ...

From a productivity perspective, managing development environments can be challenging for software teams. It’s estimated that developers lose 56% of their productivity time due to inefficient ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cited Anthropic's Mythos model as a step toward AGI and urged Congress to develop open ...

Qualcomm plans to integrate the Dragonwing and Arduino platforms with the MoveIt open-source manipulation framework.

Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that. Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in ...

ONVIF, the global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announces it is implementing open source for its physical security tech. The move is said to streamline ...