Going fully open source offers freedom, but real-life use reveals friction, upkeep, and unexpected limitations daily.

On the flip side, there’s the sprawling, unwalled garden of free and open-source software (FOSS) where the "free" part is a nice add-on to the "open-source" cake. Anyone with coding chops could audit ...

The neurons in our brain that underlie thought connect to each other using tiny branch-like structures on their surfaces ...

Open-source software allows anyone to modify, enhance, or view the source code behind it. It can encourage collaboration in ...

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. revealed today that it had raised $280 million in new funding ...

In the face of growing risks from open-source software dependencies, Google Cloud is releasing its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service for Java and Python ecosystems at no cost. Image: ...

Federal politicians should dump their policy of procurement neutrality and actively encourage agencies to adopt open source software, OSS supporters claim. Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth and ...

Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

Open-source software (OSS) has become embedded in the software technology industry. A majority of a modern application stack consists of pre-existing open-source software, from the operating system to ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Open source software (OSS) is so prevalent that it’s difficult to imagine life without it. For businesses, open source ...

The operators of leading open source software (OSS) package repositories, including the Python Software Foundation and the Rust Foundation, have set out the actions they are taking to help better ...

One of the most persistent myths surrounding Linux and other open source software is that there’s no easy way to get good support. Just this week, for instance, we saw this claim used in Microsoft’s ...