I'm always in favour of more open-source software.

Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...

Going proprietary isn’t always the end of the story. Every closed-source pivot leaves a door open somewhere.

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

The Eclipse Foundation and the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) have signed a memorandum of understanding to help strengthen open source software security and prepare projects for ...

The two organisations also participate jointly in the Eclipse Foundation’s Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group (ORC WG), which brings together open source foundations, global enterprises, and ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Software supply chain quickly became a hot topic in the last few years, especially as the number of high-profile attacks increased and the White House got involved. Sigstore, an open source project ...

You’ve probably heard artificial intelligence models described as “open” or “closed.” These are not descriptions of the model ...

Over the years, the IT landscape has seen truly iconic open-source projects, such as Linux, Mozilla Firefox and GNU Compiler Collection. The open-source market is also forecasted to exceed $32 billion ...

Stephen is an author at Android Police who covers how-to guides, features, and in-depth explainers on various topics. He joined the team in late 2021, bringing his strong technical background in ...