You may even be using open-source software without knowing it, as popular software like Firefox, GIMP, OBS, VLC, and Linux ...

Open-source software isn't immune to vendor lock-in, when your company becomes so dependent on a partner’s product that it is prohibitively costly or difficult to switch to an alternative.

But the past 12 months really have underscored both the power and perils of open source software. Topics. Adobe, Apps, Figma, open source, OpenAI, Social, TechCrunch 2023 Recap, unity.

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

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning.

Free and open source software is released with licenses that allow it to be redistributed freely for others to use, copy, and/or modify within certain restrictions and conditions. Free culture refers ...

FINOS also surveyed 249 financial services professionals who were familiar with their organization's approach to open source software. Of those surveyed, 87% said open source was "valuable to the ...

The news underscores how vulnerable open-source software can risk impacting an entire software ecosystem, like it did with the Apache Log4j 2 flaw in 2021. It doesn’t help that open-source ...