Like a benevolent Borg, open source sweeps across the software universe year after year, bringing innovation to everything it touches. And year after year, InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Awards, aka ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whenever wanting to acquire new enterprise software for your company, there are several factors to consider. While reliability of the system and cost are very important, most companies are now opting ...

A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping. By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac has written about the ...

Open source isn’t just about being nice; it’s a practical way to build tech so that no single company can suddenly pull the rug out from under your project. For a long time, I thought I understood ...