In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

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 ...

There are two sides to the software industry. One faces outwards, with whizzy products and services that bring in billions of dollars of revenue for trillion-dollar companies. The other faces inwards, ...

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen next to the Chat GPT logo on a phone on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...

We talk about open source software in the wrong way. The conversation always comes back to cost savings, licensing fees and avoiding vendor lock-in. These things matter, but they're not why open ...

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 ...

DeepSeek, an open-source Chinese AI company, has riled Silicon Valley with its rapid rise. Meta's chief AI scientist said DeepSeek had benefited from the open-source community. Meta's AI program has ...

When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House ...

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