Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

June 18, 2026 - Automated Software Composition Analysis, or SCA, tools have become a standard part of modern software development. With open source — software made available under licenses that allow ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

When the Linux Foundation released version 1.1 of its OpenMDW license on May 28, the name that carried was Nvidia's. The chip-maker plans to adopt the license across future releases of its Cosmos, ...

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 ...