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

A succinct definition of open source software is that it’s software whose underlying code can be examined, altered, and redistributed.

Open code software giant Elastic to buy Israeli startup, open Tel Aviv R&D site Cybersecurity startup Build.security was established just last year, will serve as key location for engineering and ...

Open source software is often seen as a path to reproducibility in computational science. In practice there are many obstacles, even when the code is freely available, but open source policies ...

When you buy software, you probably trust that you're getting a secure product that runs well. This faith may come from the fact that the source code - the digital DNA that tells the program how ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

By archiving all software source code, Software Heritage ensures its long term availability and builds a common, shared, open infrastructure at the service of academia, cultural heritage, industry, ...

Software vendors who develop code the traditional way, meaning inside their own walls, using preselected beta testers to help them catch bugs, make similar claims.

From ethical concerns, a desire for more money, and simple obnoxiousness, a handful of developers are ruining open-source for everyone.

An open source web server, a software foundation, and a permissive license that, unlike the GPL, allows source code to be mixed into non-open source, commercial code.