We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse ...

Despite a media habit of referring to Wikipedia as an open-source project, it looks only a little like such software efforts.

What does "open source" mean? With open source software being so prevalent in our lives (Android, Wordpress, Mozilla Firefox are almost fixtures), you would think that it would be simple enough to ...

You can use one of these free open-source wiki software to collaboratively create, modify, organize, and maintain web pages.

The rules-based order that underpinned globalization is lurching toward a closed-source model. An ‘open hybrid’ system will ...

Software is just the beginning … open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation ...

The coolest open-source software tools in 2022 include the Apache Druid database, Apache Iceberg data analytics tool, Grafana observability software and TensorFlow machine learning platform.

Recently, Michael Skok wrote that “open source is eating the software world.” As general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, Skok should know. He’s witnessed the power of open source ...

Free and open source software is released with licenses that allow it to be redistributed freely for others to use, copy, and/or modify within certain restrictions and conditions. Free culture refers ...