A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...

EmeritOSS provides a new lease of life for three open-source projects. The tool adds a way to patch otherwise abandoned programs. More open-source projects will be added if there's demand. Chainguard ...

LibreOffice is a great office suite, but it isn't as good as OpenOffice, which is offered by Apache and is more conservative ...

For years, designing a high-end computer chip meant paying millions of dollars in licensing fees, creating an insurmountable ...

Opinion Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, ...

Gathering and analyzing massive data sets couldn't happen without research software. Now, thanks to a $750,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Open Source Programs Office, ...

Underpinning the digital economy is a deep foundation of open-source software, freely available for anyone to use. The majority of the world’s websites are run using Apache and Nginx, two open-source ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder, has created a design ...

Save money on an offline word processor with LibreOffice, and it doesn't have Microsoft Copilot either. It took some convincing, but earlier this year, I finally ended a years-long relationship with ...

There are tons of brilliant open-source apps. You'll find open-source titles for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Some of these apps are so good, they should have a price tag. Since I started my journey ...

The people who keep open-source software running and secure are being flooded with reports from an unlikely source: autonomous AI agents. Why it matters: Open-source software is the foundation of the ...