How pervasive is open source software? Extremely pervasive. Is it getting any easier to work with? Not much easier, sorry. That's the prognosis of a recent survey of 872 IT managers, which finds eight ...
How big a deal is open source? According to a January 2024 Harvard Business School study, rebuilding open-source software (OSS) would cost $8.8 trillion if companies had to develop equivalent ...
Software freedom. User freedom. Why do we have to choose? Licensing hasn’t kept pace with the reality of software in the cloud and AI. Folks, we have an open source problem. And, no, it’s not the ...
Something to look forward to: One of the founders of the Open Source Initiative is unhappy with the movement's current state of affairs. What is the first action he would take in a Post-Open Source ...