Open source enters 2026 as core enterprise infrastructure, with growing pressure around sustainability, governance, funding, ...

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Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, professionalizes supply-chain defenses, and scales coordinated security ...

Some software developers disagree with the open-source community on licensing and compliance issues, arguing that the community needs to redefine what constitutes free open-source code. The term “open ...

Potentially heralding a fundamental shift in definitions of open source, HashiCorp moved to more restrictive licensing for infrastructure-as-code (IaaS) tool Terraform in 2023. The Cloud Native ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

For many reasons, existing open source licenses are not a good fit for AI. Simply put, AI involves more than just software and most open source licenses are designed primarily for software. Much work ...