Selling support for open source projects that you don't own or contribute to I'm amazed that companies still base their businesses on open source software they neither own nor contribute to.

More and more companies are looking to tap into communities for contributions to open source projects. But following the open-source trend just because everyone is doing it isn’t good enough.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.

Fortunately, you can use GitHub to bypass this and start contributing to open-source software with minimal effort. Do not make test commits or pull requests on projects unless they explicitly ...

Microsoft made .NET Core and other .NET Foundation projects open to community collaboration. Want to make a contribution? Read these tips first.

Without these policies, I suspect that employees at these institutions using open source are simply contributing to the projects on their own time. That Alfresco gets bug fixes from individuals ...

As Dan Woods wrote after chatting up our own Matt Asay and Joe Brockmeier, enterprises don't like contributing to projects run by other enterprises, even open source ones.