A Linux Foundation offshoot called the LF AI & Data Foundation is teaming up with a host of technology industry giants to launch a new initiative that aims to drive open-source innovation in data and ...

Moreover, much of Obsidian’s plugin ecosystem is open-source, and anyone can build, share, and tweak those plugins. So while ...

Given the rapid advance of the open-software movement, that seemingly far-fetched scenario isn't as laughable as it once was. For just about every category of proprietary software you can think of, ...

Is this a signal that the industry has decided interoperability matters more than proprietary advantage at the infrastructure ...

I thought the whole point of Open Source is that you can make it what you want? I just finished reading Neil McAllisters column A slim market for certified open source?. I have to agree with Neil and ...

Toyota, Honda, and Mazda are building a new open-source car platform that runs everything from entertainment to navigation - ...

Open-source application stacks — and the scramble to build, support and sell them to enterprise IT customers — have been one of the technology industry’s hottest trends this year. Vendors hawking them ...

Three former BEA Systems executives who left earlier this year have resurfaced as founders of a Seattle start-up that plans to begin integrating and supporting a variety of open source server software ...

If you spend any amount of time online, you already know that Windows PCs are a constant target. Between phishing scams, malicious downloads, and the endless stream of background processes trying to ...

SourceLabs took the wraps off of its SASH Stack for Java yesterday, while this morning at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference startups ActiveGrid and Greenplum announced new offerings. Greenplum, ...

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 ...

A pioneering startup called Merit Systems Inc. is getting a lot of attention today after raising $10 million to create a new economic model for software developers that it calls “open-source ...