Open source is at the heart of many technologies pushing enterprise infrastructure forward, and here are of the five most important. Open source software has been a key underpinning of enterprise IT ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

Back in August, the Obama Administration announced a new policy that requires 20 percent of the federal government's software projects be open source. To make all of that material easily accessible, ...

An open-source software project aims to give software developers a simple way to wrap encryption into their applications to thwart online surveillance efforts. The project, called Crypton, comes from ...

A petition calls for volunteer work on open-source software to be treated legally like traditional volunteer work – with tax ...