At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source. This ...

Programmers contribute to free software and open-source projects for many reasons--some for the fun of it, some to improve their skills and others for a paycheck. Many people have wondered why these ...

KRAFTON on the 20th unveiled a new AI agent technology called “Terminus KIRA.” Introduced directly by Lee Kang-wook, Head of AI Technology at KRAFTON, the technology is focused on addressing ...

South Korea has been found to have the world’s highest proportion of open-source policies in artificial intelligence (AI) development. According to the Software Policy Institute’s recent report, ...

Open source doesn’t guarantee responsible AI. But it increasingly makes responsible evaluation possible for smaller organizations.

Vibe coding’s transformative impact on developer productivity is having adverse consequences for the open-source ecosystem, ...

An open source tax credit is proposed which would allow individuals who develop open source software to receive a tax credit worth 20 percent of their out-of-pocket costs. Corporations and ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Sentient Foundation launches to ensure open-source AGI stays decentralized and aligned with humanity's interests globally.

Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that. Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in ...

Any game that is assembled from open-source software and allows the public to download its source code is considered an open-source game. To put it another way, an open-source game can be downloaded ...

There are several riffs on the original 'free as in speech, not free as in beer' distinction as a way of explaining open source. I've been saying 'free as in puppy' for years and I coined 'free as in ...