In 2021, Elastic moved to closed source licenses after several years of conflict with Amazon’s cloud subsidiary AWS, which was selling its own managed version of Elasticsearch. While AWS was perfectly ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

Technology giants such as Meta and Microsoft are describing their artificial intelligence (AI) models as ‘open source’ while failing to disclose important information about the underlying technology, ...

Open-source protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts. The protocols are typically ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Lloyds has established an Open Source Programme Office (Opso) ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Dina Biagio of Spoor & Fisher explores the impact of open-source software on technology development and highlights the tension between collaborative innovation and traditional intellectual property ...

It should not be a secret that the world’s IT systems rely on open source software - according to analysis by Black Duck, 70 percent of software is based on open source. In banking, 87 percent of ...

CNCF has formalised a partnership with Docker that grants all projects hosted under its umbrella full access to Docker’s Sponsored Open Source programme. The move promises enhanced registry features, ...