Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

When I started my journey in technology, conducting research and development on the mobile internet at Motorola and 3Com, I worked on open-source software in my free time. In 2017, when I founded ...

I still remember the first time a notification popped on my screen informing me that TDengine, my open-source project, was ranked first on GitHub Trending. I was excited, hardly able to believe that a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open source has changed the enterprise IT software market but is in turn being changed by that market--and not always in positive ways. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for ...

Without open source, there is no AI. It's that simple. But, those same licenses have been showing their age: The Gnu General Public License (GPL), Apache License, and Mozilla Public License don't fit ...

The value in AI comes from proprietary guardrails, agents, and data. It may be built on a base of open models, but companies ...

Open source software is ubiquitous. It has become an unequaled driver of technological innovation because organizations that use it don't have to reinvent the wheel for common software components.

I've been doing some open source development for Summer of Code this year, and I'm beginning to wonder: how does open source experience look to potential employers? I would guess that the amount of ...

Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation. But if top companies get spooked, they could close up shop. Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke ...

Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation. On May 18, thousands of software ...