Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

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

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

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.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk last week once again signaled that the social media giant would be making its algorithm for recommending tweets open source code.

Open source refers to software or other projects with source code that can be viewed, modified, or upgraded by anyone. Learn about the pros and cons of open source.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek plans to open-source portions of its online services' code as part of an 'open source week' event next week.

While open code repositories can increase efficiency in R&D, they also raise issues of security vulnerabilities. Today’s developers are under pressure to deliver new software at an increasingly rapid ...

It seems a simple enough concept for anyone who’s spent some time hacking on open source code: once you release something as open source, it’s open for good. Sure the developer might decide ...