At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source. This ...

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One of the biggest developments in software during the past decade has been the growth of the open-source software movement. On the face of it, even the existence of such a movement seems bizarre: Why ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

An open source tax credit is proposed which would allow individuals who develop open source software to receive a tax credit worth 20 percent of their out-of-pocket costs. Corporations and ...

From a productivity perspective, managing development environments can be challenging for software teams. It’s estimated that developers lose 56% of their productivity time due to inefficient ...

There are several riffs on the original 'free as in speech, not free as in beer' distinction as a way of explaining open source. I've been saying 'free as in puppy' for years and I coined 'free as in ...

More than a dozen open source industry bodies have published an open letter asking the European Commission (EC) to reconsider aspects of its proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), saying it will have a ...

Any game that is assembled from open-source software and allows the public to download its source code is considered an open-source game. To put it another way, an open-source game can be downloaded ...

Ranting about the remaining employees needing to be "extremely hardcore" doesn't help any. And, adding insult to injury, Musk has also abandoned Twitter's open-source projects. Like almost all modern ...

Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that. Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in ...