Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Some software developers disagree with the open-source community on licensing and compliance issues, arguing that the community needs to redefine what constitutes free open-source code. The term “open ...

Over the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant ...

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

What just happened? A $3 billion startup called Sentry is backing a new licensing model aimed at striking a balance between open-source and proprietary software. Dubbed "fair source," this model seeks ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

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The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...