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

The modern app ecosystem runs on unspoken and unfair bargains. Users get a library of free apps in exchange for their data and attention. The model extracts maximum value from users and treats them as ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

Microsoft open sourced the inline suggestions system in VS Code, marking the second milestone in its plan to build an ...

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 ...

Crypto was born from an open-source ethos, where code was shared publicly, accessible for review and shaped by community contributions. Transparency and verifiability are foundational principles that ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

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 ...

Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into ...

Open source software thrives on transparency and collaboration, while today’s most advanced AI coding assistants are often built as closed, proprietary systems. As generative AI becomes more ...

It's not just that AI's early roots spring from the 1960s' open language Lisp; the headline AI generative models, such as ChatGPT, Llama 2, and DALL-E, are built on solid, open-source foundations.