With open-source software, the code is readily available, so you can make changes to how it works. I realize this takes special skills but it's sometimes not as challenging as you might think.

Open-source software has always been seen as a game-changer. Free, flexible, and community-driven. But let’s be honest—how many people actually open the source code, review thousands of lines ...

As users of open source, we have a responsibility to ensure it is properly vetted, managed, and maintained within the software it composes.

Open source code is meant to be shared, improved, and used in whatever way the user wants, marking a departure from traditional software licensing agreements.

And open source is forever. As soon as code is released under an OSI-approved license, it is open-source code, no two ways about it. But what about companies?

As business leaders adopt generative AI they must decide whether to build their AI capabilities using open-source or rely on proprietary, closed-source alternatives.

Open source communities have done little to provide a clear way to spotlight code found to have vulnerabilities or identify how to remedy it when a fix is even made available, he says.