Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

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 ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

CEO of Fairwinds, Bill Ledingham is a seasoned executive who grows technology companies and helps them to define and deliver new innovation. A counterintuitive trend is happening as companies rush to ...

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 ...

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In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

They say that if you put good out into the world, it will come back to you. That might not be an idea people normally associate with the software development industry, but that idea more or less ...

Every time I get excited about a shiny new creative tool, it usually ends the same way — paywalled by subscriptions and owned by a big-name conglomerate. This is why I find myself coming back to ...