With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

Tech giants are pouring trillions of dollars into AI chips and data centers while the industry quietly faces a fork in the ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Is DeepSeek's new model the latest blow to proprietary AI?

LONDON -- Over the past decade, companies such as Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. The companies cite ...

"People sometimes think that we changed the license because we were upset with Amazon for taking our open source project and providing it 'as a service,'" Elastic co-founder and CTO Shay Banon told ...

DeepSeek 3.2 introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention for long context, improving tool use while keeping memory across calls, finish multi-step tasks faster ...

Meta has abandoned its open-source AI roots to launch a paid model named Avocado, signaling a shift in how it makes money ...

Jimmy Atkinson sent me a link to his blog WHdb with an article that gives alternatives to 50 top proprietary applications. While the focus is more end user than IT infrastructure, it's a pretty ...