Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports. “As the security ...

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 ...

Adrian Edwards is an open book. Every week, the computer science student can be found in RIT’s SHED working on a free and open source software (FOSS) project that could improve the campus and the ...

I love free and open-source software (FOSS). The whole movement is one of the best things in the world of technology and computers as a whole. I've been an open-source advocate for most of my life at ...

I don’t envy any individual or small organization that has to market a Linux distribution (or a FOSS project, or an indie game). There are currently hundreds of Linux distros in active development. 72 ...

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 ...