Japan reports strong growth in open source value and new expectations for support, security, and governance. Watch the highlights and explore the full findings from the 2025 State of Open Source Japan report. Read the full report:
The State of Open Source Japan 2025
The State of Open Source Japan 2025
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Open source adoption is at an all-time high, but many organizations still struggle with governance and security maturity. Dr.Irving Wladawsky-Berger highlights the key findings from The State of Global Open Source 2025 and why strategic participation matters. 🔗 Read the blog:
The State of Open Source Software in 2025
Irving Wladawsky-Berger discusses the latest Linux Foundation research report, The State of Global Open Source 2025.
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Open source adoption in Japan is delivering measurable business value. In this blog, Hilary Carter, SVP of Research at the Linux Foundation, shares findings from The State of Open Source Japan 2025. The research highlights enterprise impact and where stronger cloud native foundations and open source governance can support long-term growth. 🔗
Japan’s Open Source Moment: Strong Business Value, Global Leadership—and a Clear Path Forward
Hilary Carter, SVP of Research at the Linux Foundation, shares some key takeaways from our research on the state of open source in Japan.
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The Linux Foundation’s 2025 Annual Report reflects a year of global collaboration and steady growth across open source, AI, security, standards, and education. Here are the highlight moments from this year’s report. Read more:
Linux Foundation Annual Report 2025
Tap into the latest open source publications. Discover insights from our projects and open technology thought leaders.
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OpenPOWERorg and ChipFoundry announced the winners of the Microwatt Design Challenge, highlighting how #opensource tooling enables community-driven hardware innovation. With 300+ teams registered, winning designs are now moving from open design to packaged parts and evaluation boards. Read more:
OpenPOWER Foundation and ChipFoundry Announce Winners of the Microwatt Design Challenge, Advancing Open Source POWER Hardware
OpenPOWER Foundation and ChipFoundry Announce Winners of the Microwatt Design Challenge
As 2025 comes to a close, we are celebrating the people and projects advancing open collaboration. Thank you to our global community for an impactful year. Read the December newsletter for highlights and what’s ahead:
Linux Foundation Newsletter: December 2025
Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be sure to register for upcoming events!
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📊 Open source isn’t just a software model—it’s a strategy. 84% of organizations find that fostering open source culture leads to higher retention. Why? Because it gives engineers: ✅ Autonomy ✅ Visibility ✅ Purpose ✅ A path to growth without leaving your team See how it’s working in the "2025 State of Tech Talent Report". Free to download:
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2025 State of Tech Talent Report
Download the full report today
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Celebrating collaboration and community excellence 🎉 The 2025 LF Decentralized Trust Community Awards recognize contributors building trusted, transparent, and secure decentralized technologies through open collaboration. Learn more:
2025 Community Awards: Recognizing Contributions from Across the LF Decentralized Trust Community | LF Decentralized Trust | 16 comments
As part of our celebration of a decade of building better together, this year we are giving out 10 community recognition awards. Join us in sharin...
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🛜 Build real 5G Core skills for FREE. Introduction to free5GC (LFS114) is a new self-paced course that takes you beyond 5G basics and into real architecture, functions, and code. Learn AMF, SMF, UPF, and how to run and troubleshoot free5GC. Enroll free:
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Introduction to free5GC (LFS114) | Linux Foundation Education
Build in-demand 5G Core skills with free5GC and learn architecture, functions, codebase, and debugging for cloud native, edge, and AI systems.
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Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on AI being a valuable tool to help maintain code and details around the newly released Linux kernel 6.18 at #OSS Japan. Read about it in ZDNet:
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Linus Torvalds is 'a huge believer' in using AI to maintain code - just don't call it a revolution
Torvalds is sick of all the AI hype, but says AI is finally maturing to the point where it will be useful for Linux developers and maintainers.
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