The new definition of open must consider implementation, specification, and governance as three critical factors that must be woven together.

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

With more than 100,000 open source projects hosted on SourceForge alone, starting a new one is no small undertaking, and bringing it to the masses is hardly a sure thing. In this article reprinted ...

The finance sector has an interesting relationship with open source. For many years, open source was not trusted, with concerns about security due to the fact that everyone can see the code involved.

Since software can’t run without infrastructure, global open-source projects need a special kind of infrastructure to operate. Equinix Inc. is partnering with other players, such as The Linux ...

A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. Last year’s report demonstrated that AI and data infrastructure ...

In early 2025, a class-action lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI over Copilot’s use of open-source training data ...

In open source's early days, its main intellectual property (IP) enemy was copyright lawsuits from proprietary companies. They wanted to squash open-source projects before they could become deadly ...

Microsoft has banned the developer accounts of high-profile open-source projects, leaving them unable to publish software ...

The latest round of GitHub closures underscores a broader pullback in Intel's open-source footprint amid ongoing ...