Peter Brown is the new executive director of the Free Software Foundation. In the first of what I hope will be many interviews with ZDNet, he asks that we change the name of this blog: Open Source is ...

Technology and its use is ever-changing. As a result, the importance of open source cybersecurity rapidly grows. Open source is leveraging the power of transparency and community to drive innovation.

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 ...

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Eric's career includes extensive work in ...

Bitcoin Core demonstrates pure open-source functioning at scale: public pull requests, formal ACK language, multi-year consensus, and no privileged caste. The contrast with restricted licensing ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. As we have already noted on Computer Weekly Open Source Insider, open source grew, it proliferated… and it became ...