Offering your software product under an open-source software (OSS) license has its advantages. By making the source code of your product available for redistribution and modification, and in many ...

Potentially heralding a fundamental shift in definitions of open source, HashiCorp moved to more restrictive licensing for infrastructure-as-code (IaaS) tool Terraform in 2023. The Cloud Native ...

Apache Cassandra’s highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database has a lot to offer the modern enterprise burdened by high-volume data. As its popularity and reliance has grown, its open core ...

Matt Aslett had a great post about defining an “open source vendor” earlier this week. The post was in response to OpenNMS CEO Tarus Balog, who didn’t agree with Matt’s use of the term “open source ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Open source software has come a long way since its early days in the 1950s and 1960s, when source code was freely shared alongside the machines it ran on, fostering a collaborative and open ...