Linux

The shift in the use of "copyleft" licenses like the GPL for open source projects to "permissive" licenses guarantees the future of open source.

Linux and open source used to be 99% secure -- or so we thought. We laughed at the poor, hapless users of Windows, an OS that seemed to suffer a new exploit hourly. We were smug and thought ourselves protected by Linux's superior design, with...

Finding and keeping women and other minorities has been a problem in tech. The recent appointment of Nithya Ruff as an at-large director on the Linux Foundation's board should have a positive effect, even outside open source.

The JS Foundation will be committed to helping JavaScript projects "cultivate best practices and policies that promote high quality standards and broad, diverse contributions for long-term sustainability."

"I joined Microsoft exactly five months ago today."...

Only months after Microsoft and Canonical worked together to bring the bash shell to Windows, Microsoft has returned the favor. PowerShell, Windows automation and command line shell, now runs on Linux and OS X, and has been open sourced under the...