The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological ...

A department builds something new (all too often something that already exists) puts the code in a public GitHub repository, ...

IT organizations that feel safe from open source licensing violations might be wise to check their code, as open source components are rapidly seeping into applications by way of offshore and in-house ...

Open source code for commercial software applications is ubiquitous, but so is the risk Your email has been sent It was almost exactly one year ago that experts found ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren’t challenging enough, app makers are increasingly experiencing the consequences of software ...

"Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community," wrote Google software engineer David Bort on in a blog post on source.android.com. "All of the work that ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Add Ohloh.net to the expanding list of companies working to make it easier for software developers and businesses to find just the right piece of open source code or entire ...

The Open Source Security Foundation today launched its Malicious Packages Repository, an open-source system for collecting and publishing cross-ecosystem reports of malicious packages. Claimed to be ...

A petition calls for volunteer work on open-source software to be treated legally like traditional volunteer work – with tax ...

"We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table so we can put technical compliance issues to rest and move forward with a serious discussion about the substance of this case," ...

Figma is one of the most popular design tools around. But when it announced its 2025 price hikes, I knew something had to ...