Developers often give up their time as volunteer labor to open source projects to help their friends.

Open-source companies need to turn a profit to remain viable as businesses, but that is easier said than done when you commit to providing your own source code freely.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals. “The phrase we use is ‘code is the ...

How To Be A Great Open-Source Leader After successfully making your company open source, learning about leadership is next. While having a background as a developer can be helpful, it's not necessary.

Open source participation is seen to demonstrate coding skills, collaboration abilities, and technology interests far beyond what's outlined in a resume.

As reported in CIO.com’s survey, half of those who use open source (49 percent) often or sometimes report bugs or contribute their changes back to the open-source community; 11 percent have open ...

Contributing to open source has been a valuable way for developers to learn to code, practice or show off a new skill, and contribute to “passion projects” by giving back to important causes ...

IBM's Todd Moore said the guide grew out of discussions the company was having with developers, who were building hybrid cloud applications.