Microsoft just open-sourced 6502 BASIC (BASIC M6502 8K VER 1.1) from 1978. The code powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, and ...

Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of first ports of its original BASIC.

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600.

The benefits of open source code can be so alluring that businesses can forget about the risks involved with using public, unvetted chunks of software throughout their applications.

Using Open-Source Code Can Save You Half a Million Dollars–but Do It Carefully Software code that’s free? It’s yours for the taking, as long as you understand the nuances of this generous ...

The SolarWinds & Log4j hacks showed open source vulnerabilities. A study looks at the open source community’s efforts to “credit-rate” risk.

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse ...

This issue of whether you can pull code from an open-source program under the GPLv2 keeps coming up. In the last go-around, some people argued they could take their code out of Linux.

Bitcoin, an open-source monetary system, can supercharge open-source development projects and vice versa.

Open source software has fewer defects on average than proprietary code does, according to new data from Coverity.

The common practice of incorporating existing open source code in new software leaves the product open to unanticipated vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers.

A new report from Synopsys shows an alarming rise in the amount of vulnerabilities found in open source code in both commercial and internal software applications.