The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

What if the tools shaping tomorrow’s technology were free, open, and built by communities rather than corporations? Open source projects are doing just that—redefining how we solve problems, innovate, ...

Artificial intelligence governance startup Endor Labs Inc. today announced the availability of a useful new tool that will allow companies to search and discover which AI models are being used in ...

Over the past couple of years, the biggest players in AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, X) have been pouring billions into developing the "base layer"—the massive pretraining phase that produces LLMs. These ...

I've been working with and writing about open-source software since 1999 and it has been a journey. From the early days of feeling like one of a small crowd to knowing I was part of a massive movement ...