A famous quote from Marshall McLuhan’s book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Ma n, reads, “The medium is the message.” It refers to the fact that the interpretation, value and meaning of ...

Long gone are the days when you would buy your software on a disk and your company's IT administrators were tasked with installing and maintaining that software without the help of the automatic ...

State of Open Source Report. According to the 2025 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) Report from Black Duck, ...

The EU Commission Thursday adopted new rules for open-source software distribution. The move is intended to facilitate the Commission’s transmission to make its software source code publicly ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scarf, the company helping open-source developers measure their software’s usage and connect with their commercial end-users, today announced $5.3 million in additional ...

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

I had dinner with a friend the other night. He works at a large retailer on the IT side and was telling me why he and his company are reluctant to embrace GNU General Public License (GPL)-licensed ...

RapidFort and ReversingLabs launch industry’s first independently validated open-source dependency libraries delivering safe package catalogs.

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 ...

Software freedom. User freedom. Why do we have to choose? Licensing hasn’t kept pace with the reality of software in the cloud and AI. Folks, we have an open source problem. And, no, it’s not the ...