Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

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 ...

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 ...

What does it mean to be “open source,” and how hard is it to deliver open-source products as a business strategy? These questions loom larger after HashiCorp’s announcement last week that it will move ...

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 ...

Redis, a tremendously popular tool for storing data in-memory rather than in a database, recently switched its licensing from an open source BSD license to both a Source Available License and a Server ...

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When AWS ships other companies’ open source code as its own, it’s hard for the code to stay open source. That says something about cloud competition versus partnerships. The big news in the open ...

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 ...

The world of open source has moved from being a niche interest that was the province of academics and self-described geeks to the mainstream. From being the purview of free software interest groups, ...

Open-source protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts. The protocols are typically ...