We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse. Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers; ...

The SolarWinds & Log4j hacks showed open source vulnerabilities. A study looks at the open source community’s efforts to “credit-rate” risk.

Modders have already gotten their own custom GTA 5 builds up and running based on that leaked code, and now the whole community is reckoning with what this means for the future of the open-world game.

Debate about whether China can rely on open source codes, particularly those that originate in the West, has been growing in the country amid rising geopolitical and technology tensions, fanned by ...

Withholding Complete Corresponding Source (CCS) from the open web doesn't violate the GPL itself, but by doing so, Red Hat makes it more difficult for anyone to verify the company's GPL compliance.

Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity ...