For years, Bill Gates and other top executives at Microsoft railed against the economic philosophy of open-source software with Orwellian fervor, denouncing its communal licensing as a "cancer" that ...

Forget dog-eat-dog. We’re hardwired to cooperate, says Michigan Tech engineer and educator Joshua Pearce. His new book tells — and shows — how to survive and thrive by sharing not just a little bit, ...

Open source will eventually transform how we do business. The benefits and advantage will go to those who are mature enough to understand the opportunity and embrace it. I recently emceed a Webcast ...

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...

Open source enters 2026 as core enterprise infrastructure, with growing pressure around sustainability, governance, funding, ...

The spirit of open-source might once have been summed up as “share and share alike.” This philosophy has its roots in the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is the license for the Linux kernel ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

So what's the difference between Microsoft Windows, Apple Computer and open source? Since I mentioned open-source software last week - applications and operating systems that are free - the next step ...

(1) For AI systems, see open-source AI. (2) Software that is distributed with its source code so that end user organizations and vendors can modify it for their own purposes. Most open-source licenses ...