Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

We talk about open source software in the wrong way. The conversation always comes back to cost savings, licensing fees and avoiding vendor lock-in. These things matter, but they're not why open ...

Just days after Euro-Office was announced by IONOS and Nextcloud, the project is now facing a public licensing dispute with ONLYOFFICE.

Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating ...

The dispute between vendors highlights the difficulty in creating European sovereign alternatives to established productivity ...