I published a version of this article on Medium eight years ago. This version is updated with new references and arguments. Over the last few years, I’ve been a part of lots of discussions — across ...

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 ...

An open-source 3D printer is a device where all or some of the materials required to create the printer and the software that ...

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen next to the Chat GPT logo on a phone on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

I’ve been writing about the democratic future of large language models (LLMs). Will this tech turn out to be an inherently centralized, authoritarian technology like nuclear power, or a more ...

Mapping the core projects (SONiC, Cilium, DPDK) and foundations (LFN, CNCF) driving data center, 5G, and Kubernetes ...

China’s open-weight LLMs are shifting the global AI race to an extent that neither the U.S. or China predicted.

Your open-source stack doesn't have to fall apart. Chaingaurd EmeritOSS will patch dying tools - and prevent them from becoming security risks.