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?

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Open Source AI agents can handle email and financial analysis using tools like Olama and NA10, helping teams automate routine tasks.

The new Open Community License (OCL) differed from open source licenses in that it prohibits the use of the designs for ...

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 ...

Nvidia Corp. has released more than a half-dozen artificial intelligence models designed for autonomous systems such as self-driving cars. The algorithms, which are all available under an open-source ...

Open-source risk is often simplistically reduced to security headlines about the latest vulnerability or bug count. Security matters, of course, but it is only one dimension of a broader risk surface ...

Open-source software and Linux are no longer fringe technologies in 2026. After decades of steady adoption, they now sit at the core of enterprise computing, cloud infrastructure, and the ...

China IC design firm Rockchip is facing an open-source licensing dispute after GitHub reportedly froze code repositories linked to its projects, drawing attention across the semiconductor and software ...

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...