We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse ...

Open source refers to software or other projects with source code that can be viewed, modified, or upgraded by anyone. Learn about the pros and cons of open source.

Open source software is generally seen and accepted as trustworthy because the code is made public and available for anyone to look through.

It's difficult to overstate the role of open source in today's world, as it intersects with just about every piece of software and hardware.

Open source code is code that is posted publicly online. Anyone is free to use the code for their own purposes, scrutinize it for bugs, or propose new changes or features. Open source code is the ...

With open-source software, the code is readily available, so you can make changes to how it works. I realize this takes special skills but it's sometimes not as challenging as you might think.

This issue of whether you can pull code from an open-source program under the GPLv2 keeps coming up. In the last go-around, some people argued they could take their code out of Linux.

It seems a simple enough concept for anyone who’s spent some time hacking on open source code: once you release something as open source, it’s open for good. Sure the developer might decide ...

The common practice of incorporating existing open source code in new software leaves the product open to unanticipated vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers.

The common wisdom assumes that open-source products get reviewed more often and with more quality. After all, the source code is open for everyone to see, so it must be getting reviewed, right ...