Open-source code in commercial network software can mean that when flaws are found by open-source project teams, fixes don’t make it to the commercial products. The continuous influx of open-source ...

Free software advocates are praising a federal appeals ruling that allows greater protection for open-source software against copyright infringement. The case ...

A quiet battle of sorts is taking place behind the scenes in thesoftware industry. Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing haveevolved, placing much more attention on Web-based applications.

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

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A friend recently sent me a DM on Twitter, suggesting the thing AWS really needs is “a flagship [open source] project” to boost its open source bona fides. He then offered some examples of what others ...

A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping. By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac has written about the ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

The SCO Group’s legal wrangling with IBM and threats directed at customers likely will have reverberations throughout the open source community beyond just the Linux operating system. As Linux and ...

Sun Microsystems has unveiled an open-source community project to develop a royalty-free digital rights management (DRM) standard. Dubbed Open Media Commons, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz ...

Computer Associates has said that it has released Ingres r3 under the CA Trusted Open Source License (CATOSL). According to CA, this release will enable the open-source community to review and submit ...

Customize content and workflows with HubSpot CMS software’s unique developer resources. Gain access to a variety of packages and licenses for open source software. HubX Asset Copier is a Chrome ...