You pay a premium for Photoshop, Windows, and macOS—but they wouldn't exist without free, open-source building blocks ...

In the intricate landscape of software development, the question of whether open source software provides superior security compared to proprietary alternatives has sparked a longstanding debate. The ...

And why I can't go back.

Two years ago, the joint government-private sector response to the Log4j vulnerability that spawned 800,000 attacks worldwide led to the Enduring Security Framework for federal agencies adopting open ...

This is why the most innovative companies in AI are betting big on open source. Mistral was one of the first companies to ...

Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing models that anyone with a computer and the right ...

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

Open source malware surged 73% in 2025, with npm as a key target with rising risks in software supply chains and developer environments.

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

Open-source software may well be the greatest “public good” the market economy has ever produced. What it shows is the power of voluntary social cooperation. Standard neoclassical economic theory ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

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 ...