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 ...

Enterprises need to practice governance of open-source software to regain control of their software supply chains.

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

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 ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Embedded systems are emerging as a go-to solution for many projects. This rapid uptake in embedded interest is due, in large part, to advances in ...

Hoping to take the worry and pain out of deploying open source applications with proprietary software, SpikeSource on Tuesday formally launched its first product and services to help with such an ...

OpenGeo released a major upgrade to its open source geospatial software suite — OpenGeo Suite 3.0 — bringing enhancements that aim to narrow the feature gap with established proprietary GIS solutions.

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.

It’s nice to think we do, or that we should, but the history of software is an ongoing blend of proprietary and open source. It seems to work. There’s little reason to think AI will be any ...

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 ...