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

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 ...

Free software replaced my paid tools—and I barely miss the subscriptions.

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

There are – and will always be – vulnerabilities in software. Just like there is no perfect security, there is no perfect codebase. That begs the question: What is the best way to fix software ...

At the turn of the century, when the modern web was just emerging and Microsoft was king, a small but growing technology movement posed an existential threat to the company. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s ...

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, ...