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 ...

this course covers everything you need to start contributing meaningfully to existing open-source projects you'll learn from James pierce the former head of Open Source at meta you'll learn the ...

It isn’t the person making the contributions—it’s how easy the contributions make it to use the software. “Nobody cares if you contribute.” That’s what a Postgres friend said to me during lunch at ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

Open source software (OSS) projects represent a transformative model of software development, underpinned by distributed communities that contribute to continuous innovation and sustainability. These ...

Enterprises need to practice governance of open-source software to regain control of their software supply chains.

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

The world of open source is undergoing significant transformation, moving away from its roots in individual developer contributions to become increasingly dominated by technology companies. This shift ...

ReactOS, which many refer to as the "open source version of Windows" has reached its 30th birthday. Development on the free ...