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Open source software has fewer defects on average than proprietary code does, according to new data from Coverity.
The intricacies of free and open-source software licenses require an honest conversation between you and your legal department.
Without a detailed accounting of open-source code running within their software, companies have no way to monitor software policies, licenses, vulnerabilities, and versions. That means IT departments ...
Sun Microsystems released an open-source code version of its StarOffice productivity suite, as promised, but a deluge of download requests overloaded the servers hosting the Web site containing ...
GitHub will store all of its public open source code in an Arctic vault It should be safe for 1,000 years.
Open source BI tool Evidence helps teams build data products using SQL and markdown, and the YC alum has raised $2.1M to help its growth.