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 ...

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There are people who are looking to get involved and build up their skills and maybe be hired by one of these companies, but the reality is that these large open source projects are built by people ...

Is this a signal that the industry has decided interoperability matters more than proprietary advantage at the infrastructure ...

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 ...

The U.S. government is likely the largest combined producer and consumer of software in the world. The code to build that software is volatile, expensive and oftentimes completely hidden from view.

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

More than 10 years ago, the trend toward permissive licensing was so pronounced that RedMonk analyst James Governor declared, “Younger [developers] today are about POSS—post open source software.

Cara Delia, principal vertical community architect for Red Hat, Colin Eberhardt, chief technology officer at the consulting firm Scott Logic, and Hilary Carter, senior vice president of research and ...

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 ...

Open source describes an approach to how software is created and licensed. It helps companies and individuals create code, make that software available to others and manage their projects over time.

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the OpenJS Foundation, which back multiple JavaScript-based open source software (OSS) projects, have warned that the attempted social engineering ...