SAN FRANCISCO — Decrying the proliferation of open source license varieties, a Hewlett-Packard executive on Tuesday urged IBM and Sun Microsystems to abandon their own licenses and back the GNU GPL ...

The former Department of Veterans Affairs CIO shows how successful development and use of open source software requires collaboration, transparency and a commitment to management. Open Source Veterans ...

When starting up, many organisations assume they need to invest in expensive software packages as a platform for their services. However, open source software may provide a cost-effective alternative.

Yet increasingly, open source middleware is standing up to the pros. The muscle behind it includes Linux, the Apache Web Server, the JBoss and Apache Geronimo application servers, and the Apache Axis2 ...

An open-source software license permits users to read, access, change and reuse the source code of a software product. Whether it’s Apache on your Web servers or Linux supporting your databases, free ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an MIT Senior Fellow & Lecturer, 5x-founder & VC investing in AI When teams prepare large language models to operate, they ...

Open-source protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts. The protocols are typically ...

Continuing its flirtation with open-source, Microsoft Corp. on Monday posted the code of a little-known collaboration application to open-source development site SourceForge.net. Microsoft is sharing ...

IRS is eyeing open source projects and Tea Party groups as possible tax scams, raising a real question: Do open source foundations need nonprofit status? Why does the IRS think open source projects ...

Mirantis Inc. today introduced k0rdent, an open-source platform designed to help enterprises manage their Kubernetes clusters. The company has released the tool’s code on GitHub. Google LLC created ...