Open source code for commercial software applications is ubiquitous, but so is the risk Your email has been sent It was almost exactly one year ago that experts found ...

Microsoft Corp. is expanding a source-code sharing program for its Windows CE mobile operating system and giving users and software developers the ability to alter the code, provided that they do so ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

The government has proposed that smartphone makers share source code with it and make software changes on security ground.

Gone are the years of proprietary software, expensive licenses and dependence on one company to meet our digital needs. Today, open source code occupies a predominant place in software engineering and ...

If you write software, chances are I don't need to sell you on the benefits of open source. As a business leader, you might not be so attracted to using code that's open to the public. Even if you are ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Leading cybersecurity officials should guide agencies toward—not away from—both using and contributing to open source code libraries, ...