Microsoft has eased some licensing requirements for Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT), which comprises a standalone MSVC compiler, libraries and scripts for C++. The ...

While the tech is being used for Valve's SteamOS projects, the company says it's also "useful for the ecosystem at large." ...

Google has open-sourced today a project for sandboxing C and C++ libraries running on Linux systems. The project's name is the Sandboxed API, a tool that Google has been using internally for its data ...

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The NGI Zero Commons Fund provides grants to people who help build the digital commons. Because all projects are free and ...

The open source movement is fertile ground for creating advanced tools and technologies – all at an appealing price. We’ve scoured the market to find six open source projects that hold promise for ...

Developers have been urged to pay more attention to issues such as support, documentation and roadmaps if they want companies to trust open source. Open source projects need to be more customer ...

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

The open source software that the vast majority of organizations include in their critical applications is vulnerable to exploitation from threat actors taking part in its creation. That's the message ...