Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

The financial and operational model of open source is under strain, even as influential research estimates organizations would face $8.8 trillion in added costs if open-source software were eliminated ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

As AI takes hold across businesses of every type and size, open-source solutions like those now offered by Meta, Google, xAI and others are catching up to proprietary AI models and providing a strong ...