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What is open source?

What’s missing from many of these discussions is a thorough explanation of what open source software actually is, and why exactly it promises an alternative. In this post, I’ll talk about the history ...
When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...
AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier ...
Vibe coding’s transformative impact on developer productivity is having adverse consequences for the open-source ecosystem, ...
Open-source risk is often simplistically reduced to security headlines about the latest vulnerability or bug count. Security matters, of course, but it is only one dimension of a broader risk surface ...
10 open-source apps I recommend every Windows user download - for free ...