The open source movement is fertile ground for creating advanced tools and technologies – all at an appealing price. We’ve scoured the market to find six open source projects that hold promise for ...

FOSS presents a natural platform for building large distributed projects because of the low barrier to entry– open code, open standards, and freely-available robust, high-quality high-performance ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is releasing its digital rights management (DRM) project under an open-source license, in hopes of driving a unified standard in the technology used to project digital media such ...

Linus Torvalds is a giant of open source. And the story of how he created Linux as a student (Just For Fun, as the title of his book would have it), and then ruled (somewhat grumpily) over the ...

Google at Google Cloud Next 24 unveiled three open source projects for building and running generative AI models. The company also introduced new large language models to its MaxText project of ...

Government agencies create custom software when solutions aren't available off the shelf -- you simply won't find a welfare payment system down at the local office supply store. When government ...

Systems vendors used the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo to show a deepening commitment to community-developed software, a trend that should help alleviate IT managers’ concerns about where they will ...

A petition calls for volunteer work on open-source software to be treated legally like traditional volunteer work – with tax ...

The division between proprietary software vendors and open-source providers is not as clear as some industry players perceive it to be. As more enterprises consider adopting open source technologies, ...