As Europe flirts with “reliable proprietary technologies” and India rolls out open source healthcare AI, Amanda Brock is drawing a sharp line between genuine openness, marketing spin, and outright control.
Posts published in “Open-Source”
At Paris’s Open Source Experience conference, six Acteurs du Libre awards mapped out a snapshot of Europe’s free software ecosystem in 2025, from enterprise strategy to privacy‑first Android and public‑sector platforms.
Weighing the tradeoffs between open source and freemium software reveals why free-as-in-freedom tools are almost always the better option.
In an exclusive conversation, newly minted Percona CEO Peter Farkas explains why the company’s open source-first approach still works -- and how he plans to build on it across global teams and new database fronts.
Most scientists agree: many published results are hard to reproduce. Can open source practices help fix the problem?
Europe wants to buy European, America wants to deregulate the world, China hacks the commons. But code knows no borders… unless we let it.
FOSS Force's Marco Fioretti asks LibreOffice's Italo Vignoli and Collabora's Naomi Obbard about why their software isn't used in more schools, and what can be done to turn that around.
Open source powers the world, but who should to keep it running—and who should decide where the money goes?
Not all open source is created equal, argues open source advocate, Nextcloud co-founder, and FOSS Force guest writer Jos Poortvliet.
My Holiday Hopes for Linux and Open Source
Commentary and Open-Source
As the old year is replaced by the new, here’s Jack Wallen’s wish list for Linux and open source in 2026 -- from the desktop to the developers who keep it alive.