Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

Just days after Euro-Office was announced by IONOS and Nextcloud, the project is now facing a public licensing dispute with ONLYOFFICE.

Developed by a consortium including Nextcloud, Ionos, and Proton, Euro-Office builds directly on the open-source OnlyOffice ...

The dispute between vendors highlights the difficulty in creating European sovereign alternatives to established productivity ...

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.