Netherlands introduces code.overheid.nl as an alternative to GitHub for government software

Dutch government launches self-hosted Git platform to reduce reliance on US tech companies ...

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...
Bleeping Computer

Winamp releases source code, asks for help modernizing the player

The iconic Winamp media player has fulfilled a promise made in May and released its complete source code on GitHub, inviting developers to collaborate on the project. Winamp is a media player launched ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in garage

Microsoft VP confirms transcribed document “is perfect and recompiles byte for byte to the original binaries.” ...
Nature

Software Development and Open Source Collaboration

The modern software development landscape is increasingly defined by collaborative practices that transcend organisational boundaries, with open source projects standing at the forefront of innovation ...
TechCrunch

What does ‘open source AI’ mean, anyway?

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...
JD Supra

DOD Seeks Contractor Disclosures of Foreign Access to Software Source Code

WHAT: The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) issued a proposed rule to implement Section 1655(a) and (c) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 (Pub. L. 115-232). The ...
ZDNet

Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source

Several European countries are betting on open-source software. In the United States, eh, not so much. In the latest news from across the Atlantic, Switzerland has taken a major step forward with its ...