Open source is no longer a novelty, even within the largest corporations. Today, 53% of businesses use open-source software, according to a recent CIO.com survey. However, not enough of those ...

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 ...

I've gotten a lot of use out of open source projects over the years. Eventually, I decided I wanted to give back. What can you do though when you've never coded an app or have money to contribute? It ...

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France and Germany build sovereign platforms on open foundations using global standards. The risk is procurement that ...

Imagine designing a super-fun game which you can play because you possess the secret rules to it, a.k.a. the code. Now, what if you were to tell your friends these “rules,” and they could start adding ...

Yes, a tiny number of companies have relicensed their open source code. Let’s worry about actual problems, like security and megacompanies that contribute almost nothing. If you follow open source ...