The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 (so far) include software for developing AI agentic applications, querying ...

Open source software is any kind of program that anyone in the world can download, modify and distribute it without paying fees. It comes in a variety of flavors, from open source CRMs to cloud ...

Well, actually, no (see the sidebar, “Best open source programming language”). But we’re more than ready to declare winners of the open source sweepstakes in IDEs, rich Internet apps, AJAX ...

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built with ...

Now, free software has been around since the first computers, but the philosophy of both free software and open source are both much newer. In the 1970s and 80s, companies rose up which sought to ...

According to GitHub VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, who claims that OSS is the foundation of 99% of the world’s software, “There are a number of benefits to open source, from ...

If the open source model has a sweet spot, it’s in programming tools. Linus Torvalds’s fabled “world domination” on the desktops of clerks or CEOs may never arrive, but it’s already here ...

When properly supported, open source software can spark innovation, accelerate social good, and ultimately help change the world. Open source software is a piece of software whose source code is ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn ...

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built with ...