Open source software has fewer defects on average than proprietary code does, according to new data from Coverity.

Open-source code is everywhere. It is the underpinning of hundreds of commercial products used in government, the private sector and by individual citizens. Over the years, from the early days of Unix ...

You’d like to use open source software, but you’re not sure what criteria you should use when deciding whether to rely on it for a specific project or not. I have a long, complicated history ...

Open source code has exploded in popularity and become an essential building block for modern software (as it can dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of software builds). The ...

Microsoft just open-sourced 6502 BASIC (BASIC M6502 8K VER 1.1) from 1978. The code powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, and ...

To help us all better understand Android, Google has made it possible to browse and search through Android Open Source Project code.

The open-source code principles of the university are recommended for use when developing software and software components for the University of Helsinki.

By chaos, Jackson is referring to the avalanche of open source software code out there that’s used anonymously for some very important projects.

SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license ...

This issue of whether you can pull code from an open-source program under the GPLv2 keeps coming up. In the last go-around, some people argued they could take their code out of Linux.