Want a good-paying programming job? By ZipRecruiter's count, the average annual pay for an open-source developer in the United States is $123,411. That's not bad. The first class, Open Source Software ...

Open-source software development has followed the same cycle for decades: passionate developers create innovative tools that attract the attention of large companies. Then, as companies adopt these ...

Well, actually, no (see the sidebar, “Best open source programming language”). But we’re more than ready to declare winners of the open source sweepstakes in IDEs, rich Internet apps, AJAX toolkits, ...

Open source software (OSS) has evolved from a niche resource for technical specialists into a critical infrastructure supporting a vast and diverse user base. Central to this evolution is the ...

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 ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

Global collaboration and contributions to the creation of software projects are made possible by open source, leading to faster innovation and the creation of more advanced and reliable software. The ...

Open-source platforms are redefining software-defined vehicles by enabling modular architectures, ECU consolidation, cloud integration and over-the-air updates. Discover how initiatives like ...

At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source. This ...

Vibe coding’s transformative impact on developer productivity is having adverse consequences for the open-source ecosystem, ...

More than a dozen open source industry bodies have published an open letter asking the European Commission (EC) to reconsider aspects of its proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), saying it will have a ...