Ever pondered how companies make money from free and open-source development projects? Con Zymaris puts forward the case.

Plenty of people have put together systems to collect, judge, and evaluate open-source projects, including information about a project's popularity, reliability, and activity. But they all have ...

From open source to open core to SaaS The original open-source projects were not really businesses, they were revolutions against the unfair profits that closed-source software companies were reaping.

Overview Grok 2 is now open source, making advanced AI more accessible.It can automate workflows, analyze data, and improve ...

Open-source companies need to turn a profit to remain viable as businesses, but that is easier said than done when you commit to providing your own source code freely.

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a p… ...

Learn what open source licenses are, which one to choose, and why it matters.

Developers and IT staff love open source software, but when they try to use open source at work they often find that their manager, or their manager's manager, has a lot of concerns. In this ...

Best practices for upstreaming a patch Based on my experience upstreaming patches to open-source projects, the process outlined below provides an overview of how to successfully upstream a feature.

Can open-source software advance the progress of AI? Open-source software is available to everyone freely and can hence speed up the pace of user data collection. This article describes the ...