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 ...

Open Source Development Labs, which promotes the adoption of the Linux operating system, has revealed potential plans for a repository of open-source code which could be used by the patent industry to ...

Open-source software is non-proprietary software that can allow for collaboration and modification among developers. While developers are typically encouraged to view, modify, and improve open-source ...

The ActiveState catalog grew to 40 million components in mid 2025 when it introduced coverage for Java and R in addition to ...

GitLab, a startup that provides open source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter, a startup that ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit community of open-source advocates, today announced its withdrawal from GitHub in a scathing blog post urging members and supporters to rebuke the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Nowadays, there is a universe of open-source projects consisting of code, libraries and ...

Open source software has the potential to be very secure. Unlike proprietary code that can only be accessed directly by its own developers, anyone can vet open source projects to spot flaws and bugs.