At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

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 ...

But how did OSS become so widespread? Was it pure cost efficiency, or does OSS really bring more innovation to organizations?

These scores place it at or near the level of top proprietary systems like GPT-5 (thinking) and Claude Sonnet 4.5, making ...

Subversion 1.5, the latest version of the popular open source software configuration management tool, was made available this week, featuring merge tracking for distributed development projects.

Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest. In the late 2000s, I was working at Borland, the formerly high-flying software ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...