A New York-based company has spotted a new business opportunity in The SCO Group Inc.’s legal battle with the Linux community: open source insurance. Open Source Risk Management LLC (OSRM), a startup ...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Monday, OSRM, a provider of open-source consulting and risk mitigation insurance, announced that the group has found that there are 283 issued, but not yet court-validated, software ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Open-source software powers the majority of today’s businesses. An estimated 70% to 90% of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Historically, industries have transformed when they embraced open data and moved away from ...

Startup says SCO has no claim, because there are no infringements in 2.4 or 2.6 kernel A start-up company looking to provide legal insurance against copyright claims against open-source software has ...

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...