A big majority (89%) of IT chiefs believe open-source software is as secure as proprietary software, according to a survey by IBM-owned Red Hat, the maintainer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Proprietary software is where a copyright holder has the exclusive legal right to the software (basically, a traditional copyrighted work), and a licensee is only given the right to use the software ...

Open source looks eerily like proprietary software in building products, not solutions, for end customers. We need to open up more of our software to allow for integration between projects.

It is hard to lose to proprietary software vendors if an open-source project or company is even remotely credible, because we have cost, quality, model, and distribution on our side.

Proprietary vendors, he argues, hold back all value until customers risk time and money buying their software. “This is hardly the best basis to create a partnership, which is really what open ...

As organizations continue to move towards multi-cloud, zero-trust environments, using only one type of software, OSS or proprietary, limits potential growth—both are needed. The best of both worlds: ...

Proprietary software is no longer the Goliath it once was. As the demand for more transparency yet better security increases, the challenges that arise from that put into question who is liable ...

Forty years later, tech companies are making billions on proprietary software, and much of the technology around us—from ChatGPT to smart thermostats —is inscrutable to everyday consumers. In ...

The free software project is assumed to be a personal hobby done on evenings and weekends away from work, and in no way related to work.

This is not new—and it's more prevalent than you might realize. With roots in the 1980s free software movement, open-source software components are estimated to constitute 70% to 90% of all ...

VA Linux Systems, once one of the flagships of the open-source software world, will rely on sales of proprietary software in the future, the company said today as it reported a $290 million loss ...