For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping tool built specifically for interface and web design, as well as ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

Both of these licensing models enable the user to fine tune and customize the AI model and avoid paying licensing fees. But there are additional considerations when choosing an open AI model versus a ...

The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Tenacity is a forked version of Audacity, but this open-source audio editor was born out of necessity when Audacity's ...

We are currently looking at xvid (open source video codec) as an add-on to our product. I have read the GNU GPL and see that if we use any GPL software we must make the source for that software ...

Nvidia sees Nemotron as a tool to drive further reliance worldwide on its hardware empire. By giving out this open model to ...