Open source is now the standard for the software industry. Proprietary software is no longer the Goliath it once was. As the demand for more transparency yet better security increases, the challenges ...

Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer security consultant, has supported free software movement activist Richard Stallman’s long-standing warnings about proprietary software. His endorsement came ...

Most proprietary note-taking apps try to solve every single problem and therefore keep adding more features. Each one has databases, block systems, AI assistants, dashboards, all of it. On paper, it ...

Dr. Joseph Castle is the advisor for strategic relationships and open-source technologies at SAS after serving more than 20 years in the U.S. federal government. He spent time at the White House ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: "Hey, let's see what the open source world has to offer." Case in point: ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

Major proprietary software companies such as Wind River Systems and Microsoft have recently taken action on an open-source software reality that threatens their business model. Wind River decided to ...

Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who ...

After a series of entries about security threats from employees, I’d like to turn to something completely different: security issues relating to open source software. For those of you unfamiliar with ...