SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has issued a policy that officially authorizes the use of open-source software at the department, a move open-source pundits say opens the door to ...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced the Hexa and IDQL (Identity Query Language) open source project that enables ...

Although it is still sifting through the details of OMB's new policy, one industry group is comfortable with the final product. Although it is still sifting through the details of the Office of ...

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Behind all of the recent news around governments adopting open source use policies, the questions of whether or not open source will actually be used and at what levels remain unanswered. At the end ...

This week, the U.S. government unveiled its official Federal Source Code policy. Here is, in my opinion, the key excerpt from the announcement: “The policy, which incorporates feedback received during ...

New open-source platform provides scale, cryptographic identity, permissions, and tamper-proof audit trails for autonomous software, replacing “god-mode” API keys. TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / ...

The former Department of Veterans Affairs CIO shows how successful development and use of open source software requires collaboration, transparency and a commitment to management. In 2011, the ...

Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 ...

Microsoft caused considerable consternation in the open source community over the past month, after unveiling a shake-up to the way developers will be able to monetize open source software. There are ...

A new U.K. think tank launched on Monday will analyze how open-source software can be used in government and the private sector. The National Open Center, based in Birmingham, England, will be ...

ARLINGTON, Va.--Mike Wendy says he doesn't hate open-source software. Wendy, spokesman and policy counsel for the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), says he just wants to make sure government ...