Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

When I started my journey in technology, conducting research and development on the mobile internet at Motorola and 3Com, I worked on open-source software in my free time. In 2017, when I founded ...

I still remember the first time a notification popped on my screen informing me that TDengine, my open-source project, was ranked first on GitHub Trending. I was excited, hardly able to believe that a ...

Open-source protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts. The protocols are typically ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

Closed-source software also comes with the specter of vendor lock-in, and "security through obscurity." Now, I don't want to repeat the semi-myth that open source software is inherently more secure ...

Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation. But if top companies get spooked, they could close up shop. Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke ...

VentureBeat and other experts have argued that open-source large language models (LLMs) may have a more powerful impact on generative AI in the enterprise. More powerful, that is, than closed models, ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to use Google's Jules AI Agent to scan through the entire code repository of one of my projects and add a new feature. The AI took about 10 minutes. All ...

Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation. On May 18, thousands of software ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history, is getting ...