At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source. This ...

Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.

Open source is crucial for the longevity and security of software systems. The future of popular databases is firmly rooted in open source. Open source is indispensable for infrastructure software ...

Vibe coding’s transformative impact on developer productivity is having adverse consequences for the open-source ecosystem, ...

One of the biggest developments in software during the past decade has been the growth of the open-source software movement. On the face of it, even the existence of such a movement seems bizarre: Why ...

It's actually easy to turn what you know about your local area into useful public info.

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

An open source tax credit is proposed which would allow individuals who develop open source software to receive a tax credit worth 20 percent of their out-of-pocket costs. Corporations and ...

There are several riffs on the original 'free as in speech, not free as in beer' distinction as a way of explaining open source. I've been saying 'free as in puppy' for years and I coined 'free as in ...

More than a dozen open source industry bodies have published an open letter asking the European Commission (EC) to reconsider aspects of its proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), saying it will have a ...