When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

The new definition of open must consider implementation, specification, and governance as three critical factors that must be woven together.

As AI-driven development accelerates, ownership and maintenance questions grow. Here’s how open source offers a path forward.

In early 2025, a class-action lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI over Copilot’s use of open-source training data ...