Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems. The ...

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 ...

Open-source software will continue its march through the enterprise technology stack, buoyed by AI and (hopefully) transformative funding solutions that address sustainability. Over the past decades, ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced a $1.5M donation from Anthropic to support the ASF’s infrastructure, security, ...

And the funny thing is, it seems like it's completely legal.

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

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 ...