These heroes of open source software are hard at work behind the scenes without you even realizing it.

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 ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Embedded systems are emerging as a go-to solution for many projects. This rapid uptake in embedded interest is due, in large part, to advances in ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

We talk about open source software in the wrong way. The conversation always comes back to cost savings, licensing fees and avoiding vendor lock-in. These things matter, but they're not why open ...