Everyone's wearing bell bottom trousers that get caught in your bike spokes. Everyone has long hair. Hey, I got hair! Anyway, I was 15. I wanted to be a publisher. Specifically I wanted to publish an ...

The OSI defines “open source” according to the Open Source Definition (OSD), which stipulates that software under an open source license should not discriminate against any persons, groups, or fields ...

Google tapped into the open source community only to regret it later and muddied the Android platform. That can all end now Since its introduction in fall 2008, Android has been positioned as an open ...

There’s a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers, such as Amazon, threatens the viability of open source. I first wrote about this problem in a prior piece on ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

There’s a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers, such as Amazon, threatens the viability of open source. During 13 years as a venture investor, I have invested in ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Taking a look at the three major categories, you’ll see plenty of overlap in the Venn diagram. Things can be open source but not ...

Open Source software is nothing new to many. It is free computer software that is made available along with its code. The person or organization that created the open-source software makes it ...

2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...