Proprietary software is owned by a single entity and protected by copyright laws. It is usually sold for a profit, and its source code is kept confidential, meaning that users are not allowed to ...

As we move into 2025, open source software (OSS) remains central to digital innovation across industries. However, its widespread adoption brings heightened security challenges and evolving regulatory ...

In the intricate landscape of software development, the question of whether open source software provides superior security compared to proprietary alternatives has sparked a longstanding debate. The ...

Open source software has come a long way since its early days in the 1950s and 1960s, when source code was freely shared alongside the machines it ran on, fostering a collaborative and open ...

The Office of the National Cyber Director wants software providers to "contribute back to the security of the open source software they depend upon." The federal government wants public input on how ...

It is now roughly 40-plus years since Richard Stallman released his text editor with the words “EMACS General Public License” in the documentation and 20 some years since the world first saw the ...