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.

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.

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

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.

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

Why individuals contribute more to open-source projects than companies do.

Plenty of people have put together systems to collect, judge, and evaluate open-source projects, including information about a project's popularity, reliability, and activity. But they all have ...