Peter Brown is the new executive director of the Free Software Foundation. In the first of what I hope will be many interviews with ZDNet, he asks that we change the name of this blog: Open Source is ...

Technology and its use is ever-changing. As a result, the importance of open source cybersecurity rapidly grows. Open source is leveraging the power of transparency and community to drive innovation.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Data trust platform company, Ataccama, ...

Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the ...

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

Transparency is great, but GitHub isn’t a security certificate.

Cybersecurity professionals love their tools. Walk into any security conference, and you'll hear people debating the best options for penetration testing, network monitoring or digital forensics. But ...

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 ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. It’s time for a little open source history. The ‘open source’ label itself was created at a strategy session held ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Open source companies leading the $1 trillion enterprise software wave. How did these companies grow from free projects into billion-dollar companies? They implemented successful business models that ...