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 ...

The open source movement, which began as an effort to ensure programmers had the freedom to modify and redistribute source code to support and learn from each other, is now a catalyst of innovation ...

CIO.com – If 2008 had a buzzword, it was probably “community.” More and more companies are looking to tap into communities for contributions to open source projects. But following the open-source ...

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 ...

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 ...