The GPL makes sense as a way to protect open-source software from proprietary interests, but doesn't this simply make it a less efficient form of proprietary software? Matt Asay is a veteran ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...

Wilmington, DE, Aug. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today released its annual report for the 2025 ...

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

Apache Software Foundation President David Nalley testifies to a Senate committee about the Log4j vulnerability. The discovery of easily exploitable weaknesses in Log4j, an open source piece of ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Hard on the heels of the discovery of the largest known data breach in history, Cloudera and Intel on Wednesday announced that they’ve donated a new open source project to the Apache Software ...

Open source in 2019 is commonplace and serves as the foundation for much of modern IT infrastructure, including the cloud—but it wasn’t entirely that way in 1999. Twenty years ago, the Apache Software ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

Like a benevolent Borg, open source sweeps across the software universe year after year, bringing innovation to everything it touches. And year after year, InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Awards, aka ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about enterprise software technology and trends. How did these companies grow from free projects into billion-dollar ...