Research suggests that software developed using open source code contains fewer defects than that built with proprietary code. The catch is that open source code rarely benefits from security ...

AMD just had an unexpected slip-up: the company accidentally published the full source code for FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) on its official GPUOpen GitHub page.

Even if an open source enterprise should go belly-up its code should survive. That code can be enhanced, it can be forked, it can be turned into another business, perhaps with another business ...

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...

At Open Source Summit Europe 2025, the Linux Foundation unveiled projects and research spanning AI, sovereignty and developer ...

Meanwhile, the people doing the hard work of keeping critical code healthy are not consistently funded. In fact, many major open-source projects still operate almost completely on volunteer steam.

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working representation of what computer science was like 40-50 years ago. Now, ...

Are open-source protocols copyrighted? When a developer publishes their code as open-source, they are sharing it with the public, allowing others to use, modify and distribute it. However, the act ...

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

In the rush to bring a product to market, hurried software developers can run afoul of important open source software licensing rules.