For a period of weeks during the middle of 2023, a threat actor known as “Storm-0558” which is widely associated with the government of the People’s Republic of China, successfully compromised the ...

There's been some back and forth between various members of the technical press about whether the open source movement has lost its idealism, and the relative virtues of shunning or accepting ...

Supply chain security is rapidly emerging as a material risk for enterprise software buyers. Yet, despite best efforts from regulators to hold software publishers accountable, enterprise buyers ...

Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...

Open source software makes inroads vs. proprietary software despite warnings of Microsoft, others. Open source software initially was a head-scratcher: “How can you make money selling something for ...

If Richard Stallman achieves his dream, all software will be freely shared, altered and distributed. When he began his one-person mission in 1984, critics dismissed Stallman as someone simply tilting ...

COMMENTARY--The International Telecommunications Union's World Summit on the Information Society (or WSIS for short, because we need more acronyms in the world) was last week. The conference was ...

Wondering whether you should use proprietary software like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Windows or open-source platforms like GIMP and Linux? Deciding between the two isn't easy. Both proprietary ...

Outdated or abandoned open source components are persistent in practically all commercial software, putting enterprise and consumer applications at risk from security issues, license compliance ...

As you can imagine I get asked by all types of companies and individuals to look at software. In fact, I probably get more requests to look at software than a lot of people even get email. And there's ...

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The “scrufffy guy coding away in his basement” archetype stopped applying to open-source software a while ago. It just doesn’t make sense when you consider that heavyweight vendors like IBM and ...