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

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

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

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

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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