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 ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

When Anthropic launched Project Glasswing in April 2026 – a consortium of eleven major companies deploying its Claude Mythos Preview model to find vulnerabilities in critical open-source software − ...

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 ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

IBM is investing $5 billion in Project Lightwell, a cybersecurity initiative to shield open-source software from advanced AI ...

For decades, disaster response agencies depended heavily on proprietary software to collect, visualize and interpret emergency data. Satellite imagery, geographic information systems (GIS) and ...