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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If you're a student, you may have to use several different software programs for various purposes. Apps for taking notes during class, programs to edit photos for an assignment or word processors to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

‘If you want to explore your options, go to OpenMSP. Pick a commercial product, and you will automatically get all the alternatives. Also, you can build a custom report with Anthropic Claude, and ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Oct 23, 2025 at ...