Microsoft has founded an organisation for the exchange of code between software companies and open-source communities. The CodePlex Foundation has been created as a not-for-profit forum to address ...

Hasso Plattner, the billionaire cofounder of business software maker SAP, has teamed with IBM and Deutsche Telekom to host a forum aimed at giving open source software entrepreneurs an opportunity to ...

Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg has spoken out against a number of open source projects for profiteering from their code. The two examples Mullenweg cites are the open source forum platform Vanilla, ...

Entrepreneurs attending a forum in Germany this week showed how they plan to use clever open-source products — commercially — to compete with proprietary software companies. The Open Source Forum gave ...

The 2025 Saudi-China Open Source Forum convened successfully at The Garage in Riyadh on November 11, 2025, uniting premier open-source technologists and enterprises from both nations. Hosted by the ...

Open source has plenty of supporters — among them venture capitalists who view the software as a disruptive technology with huge potential. But that doesn’t mean they’re about to throw cash at ...

Middle powers like Canada and the EU are quietly building an alternative AI future — one that's open, accountable, and not ...

Hasso Plattner, the billionaire co-founder of business software maker SAP AG, has teamed with IBM Corp. and Deutsche Telekom AG to host a forum aimed at giving open source software entrepreneurs an ...

Open source software is our era’s version of the French scientific salon. In the 18th and 19th centuries, young men (mostly men) would gather at the feet of elder scientists to learn the truth of the ...