Thousands of software development teams whose CI/CD pipelines depended on LocalStack’s free community edition lost access to no-cost, no-account AWS emulation on March 23, 2026, when the company ...

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...

Paying taxes is hard enough — but paying a fee to pay your taxes just adds insult to injury. The good news is that millions of taxpayers can file their federal returns — and even their state returns — ...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em--in large numbers. That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, ...

In a splashy announcement Thursday, Microsoft Corp. touted new efforts to improve the interoperability of its key software products with open-source projects and products from other vendors. Some in ...

Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has angered some in the free software community by appearing to misrepresent what open source is. In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he ...