Open source applications offer a versatile and cost-effective way to improve your productivity and maintain your organization. These tools are developed by communities of contributors, ensuring ...
Open-source risk is often simplistically reduced to security headlines about the latest vulnerability or bug count. Security matters, of course, but it is only one dimension of a broader risk surface ...
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What is open source?

What’s missing from many of these discussions is a thorough explanation of what open source software actually is, and why exactly it promises an alternative. In this post, I’ll talk about the history ...
Open source software thrives on transparency and collaboration, while today’s most advanced AI coding assistants are often built as closed, proprietary systems. As generative AI becomes more ...
Once the domain of idealistic developers and technology companies, open-source software is now deeply embedded in Wall Street’s core infrastructure. Even global banking institutions—a sector ...
When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...
Imagine a world where countries work together like open-source code. This is what happened when Britain and Italy tried to change how they work together. Britain was the “reluctant sheriff” and Italy ...
Many of us remember a time when open source advocacy was predominant in adoption decisions for everything from learning platforms, to educational resources, to administrative systems, and much more.
The financial and operational model of open source is under strain, even as influential research estimates organizations would face $8.8 trillion in added costs if open-source software were eliminated ...
While software content is increasing and projects' time-to-market is shrinking, the size of software teams stays constant. This presents a dilemma to software teams as to how they can “magically” get ...