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?

MiMo-V2.5 stands as a testament to the power of sparse architectures and permissive licensing in the race toward functional ...

The new definition of open must consider implementation, specification, and governance as three critical factors that must be woven together.

In early 2025, a class-action lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI over Copilot’s use of open-source training data ...

A California Superior Court appears to have recently answered a longstanding question in the open-source software community and in providing that answer, gave television manufacturer Vizio clarity.

Google's newest Gemma model is now both open-weight and open-source ...

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 ...

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones ...

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source ...

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 ...