Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological ...

A department builds something new (all too often something that already exists) puts the code in a public GitHub repository, ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Government interest in open-source software security is on the rise and reflects the scale upon which this code is utilized across all sectors, including critical infrastructure. The widespread usage ...

Open-source software is free, flexible and adaptable, but lax oversight can obliterate the benefits. Here's how IT is keeping track. The most attractive aspects of open-source software can also be the ...

No one wants to wait to use a tool that could help their work. They don't want to jump through hoops or deal with company bureaucracy, especially if the tool is reputable and clearly meets industry ...

A Waltham, Mass.-based provider of tools for accelerating the use of open source in software development estimates conservatively that 10 per cent of development spending is redundant given the open ...

Code vulnerability is not only a risk of open-source code, with many legacy systems still in use — whether out of necessity or lack of visibility — the truth is that cybersecurity teams will ...