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 ...

The GPL makes sense as a way to protect open-source software from proprietary interests, but doesn't this simply make it a less efficient form of proprietary software? Matt Asay is a veteran ...

The value in AI comes from proprietary guardrails, agents, and data. It may be built on a base of open models, but companies ...

Open-source refers to the practice of making source code freely available to the public, allowing anyone to view, modify and distribute the code. In computer science and software development, open ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Homeland Security requirements in the USA, along with compatibility and budget demands everywhere, are putting Linux and open source into more and more public sector IT shops. Linux and Open Source ...

At the heart of OIN's legal strategy is a royalty-free cross-license agreement. Members agree not to assert their patents against the Linux System, creating a powerful network effect that shields open ...

Open source security frameworks help enterprises stay one step ahead of attackers by facilitating penetration testing and vulnerability assessments on wired and wireless networks. Picking just 10 ...

Apache has fixed a critical security vulnerability in its open-source OFBiz (Open For Business) software, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Linux and Windows servers.

This is the second such study. The first, 2020's "Vulnerabilities in the Core,' a preliminary report and Census II of open-source software, focused on the lower level critical operating system ...

IT asset management needs to keep up. Provided byThoughtworks Early 2022 has brought with it an unusually high level of commotion in the open-source community, largely focused on the economics of ...