As with many things in life, motivation is everything. This also applies to the development of software, which is a field that has become immensely important over the past decades. Within a commercial ...

Modern digital infrastructure relies on innumerable open source dependencies developed and maintained primarily by volunteers: The open source community is what makes the web work. Participating in ...

A community insider laments the poor state of FOSS usability while ignoring the real culprit behind all those ugly Linux apps I love lampooning the FOSS community. These self-righteous cyber-hippies ...

Being bought by a commercial competitor is about the best possible thing that could eventually happen to a popular, pure FOSS project. It seems contrary to the vision of free software, and yet it’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The OpenSSL project, home of the world's most popular SSL/TLS and cryptographic toolkit, is changing its license to the Apache License v 2.0 ...