Linux Journal's FOSS Project Spotlights provide an opportunity for free and open-source project team members to show Linux Journal readers what makes their project compelling. Join us this weekend as ...

Modern digital infrastructure relies on innumerable open source dependencies developed and maintained primarily by volunteers: The open source community is what makes the web work. Participating in ...

You've heard that the world's infrastructure runs on Linux, and how important Free and Open Source (FOSS) software is to just about all the technology we enjoy every day, but there are some (to bring ...

I love free and open-source software (FOSS). The whole movement is one of the best things in the world of technology and computers as a whole. I've been an open-source advocate for most of my life at ...

The CodePlex Foundation has refreshed its board of directors, gaining Apache Software Foundation cofounder Jim Jagielski. embrace, extend, extinguish. I always feel a bit worried with news like this.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The OpenSSL project, home of the world's most popular SSL/TLS and cryptographic toolkit, is changing its license to the Apache License v 2.0 ...

Free and open-source software is a critical part of your company's supply chain. Here's why and how you can include it in your corporate sustainability plan. Since then there's been steep growth in ...

What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key ...

A community insider laments the poor state of FOSS usability while ignoring the real culprit behind all those ugly Linux apps I love lampooning the FOSS community. These self-righteous cyber-hippies ...

A wide-ranging study by researchers at the Linux Foundation and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard has yielded vital new information on the most widely used free and open source software ...