Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

Windows desktop has always felt like a curated showroom for Microsoft’s latest services. After all, the company’s defaults ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

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 ...

Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into ...

Open source software (OSS) projects represent a transformative model of software development, underpinned by distributed communities that contribute to continuous innovation and sustainability. These ...

The European Commission (EC) has opened a ' call for evidence ' (via LWN.net) to inform the "European Open Digital Ecosystem ...

Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing models that anyone with a computer and the right ...

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software, support, and services, is transitioning Percona Everest into an independent open source project called OpenEverest-an open source ...

In the world of software development, the debate between open-source and proprietary software has been ongoing for years. While both have their merits, open-source software is increasingly being ...

The biggest reason to consider switching from Adobe After Effects to Friction is the price. AE costs a lot of money — it's part of the Creative Cloud (CC) subscription model — and Friction costs ...