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 ...

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 ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

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 ...

Open source enters 2026 as core enterprise infrastructure, with growing pressure around sustainability, governance, funding, ...

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 ...

Here’s why I’d recommend it as an open-source alternative to Photoshop over Affinity. Pixelitor is a free, open-source, cross ...

Both of these licensing models enable the user to fine tune and customize the AI model and avoid paying licensing fees. But there are additional considerations when choosing an open AI model versus a ...

We are currently looking at xvid (open source video codec) as an add-on to our product. I have read the GNU GPL and see that if we use any GPL software we must make the source for that software ...