It'll remain open-source, though.

Sun Microsystems' decision to make Java SE open source won't make any difference to the majority of Java programmers, according to the company's chief open-source officer. Simon Phipps, speaking at a ...

Ohloh, a company that ranks the nation’s top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developers to track and rank their own teams. It’s the latest move by Ohloh, a Bellevue, WA company ...

The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing ...

Open source projects continue to stand out as compelling alternatives to proprietary software for those who are looking for more flexibility or price leverage in the tools that they use to work. Today ...

SourceForge, the public company whose properties include code repository SourceForge.net and tech news site Slashdot, announced today that it’s acquiring Ohloh, a community and database for open ...

And the Biden administration is actively seeking to attract more coders to join its open source efforts. In fact, Reuters reported that as part of a recent redesign of the whitehouse.gov site there ...

Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation. On May 18, thousands of software ...

While open-source coders have done a remarkable job of providing a complete open-source software stack, they haven’t kept up with the emergence of Web services, charges an executive from a prominent ...

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.