Balancing the benefits provided by community and transparency with the risks posed by capacity and warranty issues.

Open source software (OSS) has evolved from a niche resource for technical specialists into a critical infrastructure supporting a vast and diverse user base. Central to this evolution is the ...

The economics of the software package era were interesting. Each version of a given software package was to be written, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Custom software development is not an easy endeavor, requiring specific attention to the ...

Open-source software (OSS), by its nature, is sometimes overlooked as part of technology transactions. OSS is often a key aspect of a ...

Open source software, which allows modification and distribution regardless of whether it is for commercial or non-commercial use, and releases the source code to a wide range of people, has greatly ...

As open source software (OSS) is continually utilized across industries, the legal landscape surrounding its use has grown ...

Open-source software sometimes gets a bad reputation for being buggy, insecure, low-quality, or all of the above. To find out for myself, I spent a lot of time using open-source software and came away ...