Programmers contribute to free software and open-source projects for many reasons--some for the fun of it, some to improve their skills and others for a paycheck. Many people have wondered why these ...

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 ...

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 ...

When competition is tight, companies tend to turn inwards and build higher walls around their ideas. The public sphere becomes ruthless and tight-fisted, and development becomes hushed. But in an ...

Open-source refers to the practice of making source code freely available to the public, allowing anyone to view, modify and distribute the code. In computer science and software development, open ...

In summer 2025, the VDA, eleven automotive companies, and the Eclipse Foundation established an alliance for the development ...

The European Union (EU) is set to examine the open source space in its latest bid to take on U.S. tech dominance. A call for ...

A few weeks ago we had a fascinating discussion here comparing the functionality available with the Staroffice/OpenOffice open source cluster to that available with Microsoft's Office set. The general ...

NVIDIA releases Alpamayo suite for autonomous vehicles, enabling reasoning, simulation tools and open-source models to ...

More than 30 companies across the automotive supply chain have agreed to collaborate on open-source software to develop ...