The proliferation of free open source software has made machine learning easier to implement both on single machines and at scale, and in most popular programming languages.

Examples of popular open source software used in education include the Moodle learning management system, the LibreOffice suite, and the versatile Linux operating system itself.

The coolest open-source software tools of 2021 include Apache Kylin, AWS SaaS Boost, Kubecost, Red Hat OKD and TensorFlow.

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning.

Over the last 20 years, the OSI has been the guardian of open-source licenses, but now it will also address non-open-source licenses more and AI's role in software development.

An open source web server, a software foundation, and a permissive license that, unlike the GPL, allows source code to be mixed into non-open source, commercial code.

It also allows the development of open-source operating systems to be community-led, or at least influenced, with technical users suggesting changes to an open-source operating system's codebase.

The coolest open-source software tools in 2022 include the Apache Druid database, Apache Iceberg data analytics tool, Grafana observability software and TensorFlow machine learning platform.