Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Rick, and many others developed software that made computers intelligible to the common man. Bill ...

Propose software source code criteria for inclusion in the MoW programme’s General Guidelines. Explore the possibility of establishing a permanent organizational structure dedicated to providing ...

Beloved by Linux users since its original release in 1996, GIMP is one of the most famous and best-maintained open source software tools out there. This software is about as close to image editing ...

Open source software is generally seen and accepted as trustworthy because the code is made public and available for anyone to look through.

An open source web server, a software foundation, and a permissive license that, unlike the GPL, allows source code to be mixed into non-open source, commercial code.

The combination of open-source software with artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities for custom software ...

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

The SolarWinds & Log4j hacks showed open source vulnerabilities. A study looks at the open source community’s efforts to “credit-rate” risk.

Source code analysis (or static analysis) software helps keeps buggy code from seeing the light of day.

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...