Peter Brown is the new executive director of the Free Software Foundation. In the first of what I hope will be many interviews with ZDNet, he asks that we change the name of this blog: Open Source is ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many ...

Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the ...

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. As we have already noted on Computer Weekly Open Source Insider, open source grew, it proliferated… and it became ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

In its first "state of open-source AI" report, the Firefox maker lays out its vision of an AI industry that doesn't belong to ...

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

Android is open in theory, but very closed in practice.

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen next to the Chat GPT logo on a phone on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...