Open Source

The WordPress/WP Engine feud has escalated into a full-blown crisis, raising fundamental questions about open source governance and commercial ecosystems.

The escalating conflict between Automattic and WP Engine raises fundamental questions about open source trademarks, governance, and what happens when a project’s founder picks a fight.

Red Hat’s decision to restrict public access to RHEL source code sends shockwaves through the enterprise Linux ecosystem and raises fundamental questions about open source sustainability.

As millions flee Twitter for Mastodon, the decentralized social protocol ActivityPub faces its biggest real-world scalability challenge yet.

As users flood to Mastodon following the Twitter acquisition, the open-source platform faces its biggest infrastructure test yet.

A single developer deliberately corrupted two widely-used npm packages, exposing the fragility of the open source supply chain.

Amazon announces OpenSearch, a fork of Elasticsearch, escalating the most consequential open source licensing battle in years.

Elastic’s decision to move Elasticsearch and Kibana from Apache 2.0 to dual SSPL/Elastic License reignites the debate about open source sustainability in the cloud era.

Linux 5.7 ships with split-lock detection, the new ExFAT driver, userfaultfd improvements, and a thermal management overhaul — a release that matters more than its headlines suggest.

GitHub drops pricing barriers for teams, making unlimited private repos and essential collaboration features free for everyone.

As the WHO declares a pandemic, open source developers worldwide are mobilizing with tracking dashboards, distributed computing, and collaborative tools at unprecedented speed.