Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Tiny Linux penguins are seen for sale at the 2004 ...

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

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 ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

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Here are five projects that are worth opening your wallet for. RISC-V, which is pronounced “risk five,” is an open-source ...

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 ...

Closed-source software also comes with the specter of vendor lock-in, and "security through obscurity." Now, I don't want to repeat the semi-myth that open source software is inherently more secure ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

Cara Delia, principal vertical community architect for Red Hat, Colin Eberhardt, chief technology officer at the consulting firm Scott Logic, and Hilary Carter, senior vice president of research and ...

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...