Did you know you can contribute to many open-source projects without being an expert on GitHub, Git, or coding? Whether or not you're an experienced programmer, you can learn how to use the most ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

When I started my journey in technology, conducting research and development on the mobile internet at Motorola and 3Com, I worked on open-source software in my free time. In 2017, when I founded ...

CIO.com – If 2008 had a buzzword, it was probably “community.” More and more companies are looking to tap into communities for contributions to open source projects. But following the open-source ...

Open source is no longer a novelty, even within the largest corporations. Today, 53% of businesses use open-source software, according to a recent CIO.com survey. However, not enough of those ...

The expert team at Freeform Dynamics offer news and views on the latest hot topics, and pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and meaningful research studies. Could voluntary work on open ...

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The finance sector has an interesting relationship with open source. For many years, open ...

Title lifted fully from a morning press release by HP. The meat of it is: HP will make the underlying code of webOS available under an open source license. Developers, partners, HP engineers and other ...