Earlier this year, the world came within a few weeks of a disastrous cyber security failure that would have enabled bad actors to penetrate the IT systems of millions of organisations worldwide. The ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

I love free and open-source software (FOSS). The whole movement is one of the best things in the world of technology and computers as a whole. I've been an open-source advocate for most of my life at ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

Open source software has a number of benefits over commercial products, not least the fact that it can be downloaded for free. This means anyone can analyse the code and, assuming they have the right ...

When AWS ships other companies’ open source code as its own, it’s hard for the code to stay open source. That says something about cloud competition versus partnerships. The big news in the open ...