In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

In 2021, Elastic moved to closed source licenses after several years of conflict with Amazon’s cloud subsidiary AWS, which was selling its own managed version of Elasticsearch. While AWS was perfectly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Luis E. Romero is an entrepreneur, author and speaker. Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta Platforms Inc., during a panel ...

A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. Last year’s report demonstrated that AI and data infrastructure ...

Last month, DeepSeek turned the AI world on its head with the release of a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and use under an MIT license. Now, the company is ...

What’s Next for Open Source Software Security in 2025? Your email has been sent Hidden dependencies, social engineering attacks, and the complexity of foundation models can all contribute tothe ...

DeepSeek, an open-source Chinese AI company, has riled Silicon Valley with its rapid rise. Meta's chief AI scientist said DeepSeek had benefited from the open-source community. Meta's AI program has ...

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 ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...