Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Microsoft hasn’t always been a bastion of open source software (OSS) — former CEO Steve Ballmer once even went so far as ...

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Professor Carlos Maltzahn a $695,000 two-year grant aimed at establishing an open source program office (OSPO) that will serve the entire campus community. The ...

OpenUK’s Phase Two Open Manifesto suggests ways to strengthen open source programs while managing costs. The focus needs to be on integrating communities rather than just spending or new offices.

Open-source creative software is perfect on paper — it's free, community-driven, highly customizable, and you're not locked into a subscription model that drains your wallet every month. But using ...

Open source software, or software with publicly available code, has become popular in the United States federal government in recent decades due to its cost savings, improved security, faster ...

The open source movement, which began as an effort to ensure programmers had the freedom to modify and redistribute source code to support and learn from each other, is now a catalyst of innovation ...

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OceanBase, an enterprise-level distributed relational database provider, has drawn more than 21,300 users and 50 institutional partners to its open-source program within ...

The IT department where my friend Tina works won’t let him use open source software because they believe it’s a security risk. Is it? No. If anything, open-source software has the potential to be ...

GitHub has published its own internal guides and tools on how to go about setting up an open source program office (OSPO). According to GitHub’s recent Octoverse report, 30% of Fortune 100 companies ...

As programme manager of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft, Jason Matusow is responsible for coordinating Microsoft' global source licensing strategy. ZDNet UK caught up with him. Q: Just over ...