It might be hard to imagine now, but not too long ago the idea of free software with source code that anyone can modify wasn't one with much enthusiasm behind it. How could that be safe? What about ...

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When competition is tight, companies tend to turn inwards and build higher walls around their ideas. The public sphere becomes ruthless and tight-fisted, and development becomes hushed. But in an ...

Laravel Holdings Inc., the company behind the open-source Laravel PHP web application framework, announced today that it has raised $57 million in new funding from Accel Partners LP to support ...

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 ...

As the Web 2.0 Summit (Nov. 7-9 in San Francisco’s aptly-named Palace Hotel) drifted into its second half, the panels ended and all eyes were focused on the main stage in the Grand Ballroom. But the ...

Moreover, much of Obsidian’s plugin ecosystem is open-source, and anyone can build, share, and tweak those plugins. So while ...

Looking to widen its developer audience, IBM signs a partnership with Zend to bolster use of the PHP scripting language. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Anaconda Inc., the developer of an open-source data science platform, today announced a unified artificial intelligence development platform purpose-built for use with open-source software. The ...

At the end of March, I was supposed to attend a dinner party where the core topic of discussion was how online collaboration could tackle diseases that are traditionally ignored by Big Pharma. Instead ...

IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers. On Friday, the tech giant announced a ...