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 ...

Over the last decade, enterprises have transformed the way they build software. What used to be mostly proprietary code is now dominated by open-source components. In many cases, more than 80% of an ...

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 ...

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...