With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

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Big quote: MongoDB Developer Relations head and open-source advocate Matt Asay argues that DeepSeek represents more than just Chinese innovation – it shows how open source reshapes ownership, ...

The open-source software movement has long been a symbol of global collaboration, transparency and shared progress. Yet, as China rapidly ascends to a leadership position in open source, especially in ...

There are two sides to the software industry. One faces outwards, with whizzy products and services that bring in billions of dollars of revenue for trillion-dollar companies. The other faces inwards, ...

Look no further than the recent forkings of Redis and Terraform to see where the true power lies in the land of open source. A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a deceptively simple idea ...

Some 50 years ago this month, the Homebrew Computer Club — a do-it-yourself group of computer enthusiasts and hobbyists — began meeting in Menlo Park, California, fostering a culture of collaboration, ...

Over the last 40 years, the open-source software (OSS) movement has been a moving target for detractors and supporters. Its free-to-distribute code philosophy competed against proprietary software to ...

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The open source movement, which began as an effort to ensure programmers had the freedom to modify and redistribute source code to support and learn from each other, is now a catalyst of innovation ...

As a Fedora community architect, Justin W. Flory ’20 (networking and systems administration) wears many hats. He is a community liaison, accountant, and project manager—all rolled into one. Most of ...

One of the biggest developments in software during the past decade has been the growth of the open-source software movement. On the face of it, even the existence of such a movement seems bizarre: Why ...