From setup to API testing, these open-source tools cut out everyday development friction.

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 ...

The startup creating free alternatives to the Adobe apps has similar projects underway to replace Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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 ...

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 ...

Many people have wondered why these people give their work away. The truth is that many projects have become incorporated in order to protect themselves from individual liability. Since the founding ...

Tsai argues that US export controls on advanced technologies have fuelled the development of China's AI ecosystem Embracing ...

Few concepts inspire innovation in software development like open source. The open source paradigm empowers developers at all levels to participate, collaborate, create, refine and support their ideas ...

For many years now, there has been a trend toward open source in the field of system development. It can be seen in software libraries for the product itself as well as in development tools. A clear ...

Google’s study examines open source maintenance costs, showing how local patches and dependencies increase package update ...

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 ...

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 ...