Open source software is an increasingly important part of many organizations. Yet establishing sustainable business models to support open source development is a non-trivial problem because the ...

A collection of case studies and organizational models for those who manage and participate in open source development initiatives.

The open-source development ecosystem has experienced a significant rise in malicious software components, putting enterprises on high alert for software supply chain attacks.

A new IDC Innovators report profiles three companies that provide commercial support for a portion of the overall portfolio of open source software.

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse ...

QElectroTech is an open source tool for drawing these types of diagrams. It consists of two tools: an element editor for creating schematic symbols and a diagram editor for creating your drawings.

The argument for open-source software security has been that more people vetting publicly available source code can result in faster fixes compared to the 'security through obscurity' model – a ...

Black Duck Software and North Bridge's survey found open-source software in businesses everywhere, but few are managing it worth a darn.

A common form of open-source governance may be at the end of its life cycle. Unlike commercial software, open-source software is designed and built by communities of developers.