The open source movement, which began as an effort to ensure programmers had the freedom to modify and redistribute source code to support and learn from each other, is now a catalyst of innovation ...

The typical computer user owns lots of software that he bought years ago and no longer uses today. He may have upgraded his computer or changed brands, and then the program wouldn't work any longer.

Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS versions 1.25 and 2.0 through the Computer History Museum in March 2014. This was also intended as a historical document summarizing 'how MS-DOS was born.

Google has long been a driver of open source advances, gifting to the world such game-changing technologies as Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Chromium and Istio. But on Tuesday, the internet giant's cloud ...

A grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will further the work of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at UC Santa Cruz work with UC partners at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San ...

GitHub has published its own internal guides and tools on how to go about setting up an open source program office (OSPO). According to GitHub’s recent Octoverse report, 30% of Fortune 100 companies ...

Open-source licensing can get ... complicated. These days, many programs are 20 percent original code on top of 80 percent previously open-sourced code. To help address the resulting licensing ...

An open-source program office (OSPO) can act as both gatekeeper and evangelist in an organization’s struggle to ensure ubiquitous open-source components – incredibly useful but vulnerable to bad ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Microsoft hasn’t always been a bastion of open source software (OSS) — former CEO Steve Ballmer once even went so far as ...

Eligible open-source developers can earn rewards of $10,000 or more for their security-related work. I've been writing about tech, including everything from privacy and security to consumer ...