The source code of Anthropic's CLI tool Claude Code was accidentally made publicly accessible via a source map in the npm registry.

Beyond uniting developers under shared ideologies, goals and pain points, Open Source Summit North America ignited conversations at the intersection of code, community and change. Against the backdrop ...

The usefulness of most AI tools is questionable, but some of this emerging tech actually comes in handy. Claude Code is one of those. I have been using it for months, and it still surprises me with ...

The new definition of open must consider implementation, specification, and governance as three critical factors that must be woven together.

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 ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

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 ...

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source ...

It might be hard to imagine now, but not too long ago the idea of free software with source code that anyone can modify wasn't one with much enthusiasm behind it. How could that be safe? What about ...

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...

After BitCraft Online’s upcoming Early Access launch, the Clockwork Labs team announced it will release the game’s code under an open-source license. The studio announced their decision in a recent ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...