If you’re not paying attention to open source, you’re just not paying attention. Open source is everywhere — operating systems, browsers, mobile, and more. This collection of resources will get you up ...

Open-source code in commercial network software can mean that when flaws are found by open-source project teams, fixes don’t make it to the commercial products. The continuous influx of open-source ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

A quiet battle of sorts is taking place behind the scenes in thesoftware industry. Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing haveevolved, placing much more attention on Web-based applications.

The holiday season served me a nice slice of humble pie this year. A friend wanted to send some confidential information and my encryption tools were out of date. But as soon as I updated them, my ...

Funding pledged to secure open source software is an important start, but creative hackers and a proliferation of targets mean there are no guarantees. Here’s the good news. According to the Open ...

Sun Microsystems has unveiled an open-source community project to develop a royalty-free digital rights management (DRM) standard. Dubbed Open Media Commons, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz ...

The SCO Group’s legal wrangling with IBM and threats directed at customers likely will have reverberations throughout the open source community beyond just the Linux operating system. As Linux and ...

A cadre of hardware developers is trying to bring concepts from the open-source software world to the hardware business. Engineers around the world, connected via the Internet, are seeking to develop ...

Customize content and workflows with HubSpot CMS software’s unique developer resources. Gain access to a variety of packages and licenses for open source software. HubX Asset Copier is a Chrome ...

In the face of economic headwinds and a worsening problem with code vulnerabilities, 2022 was still a successful year for open source and The Linux Foundation (LF). Leadership and security in ...