A Reason to Not Hate Facebook: Open Source Contributions
When it comes to open source contributions, Facebook is above par.
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Open Source Development at Large Companies
Using LinkedIn data, we profiled 12 of the largest tech companies’ workforces to determine how many developers they deploy.
Open Source Culture Starts with Programs and Policies
More than anything, open source programs are responsible for fostering “open source culture,” according to a survey The New Stack conducted with The Linux Foundation’s TODO Group. By creating an open source culture, companies with open source programs see the benefits we’ve previously reported, including […]
Even Open Sourcers Pay for Code Repositories
Alternative vendor offerings are still commonly used to manage open source code. More research is needed to determine Atlassian Bitbucket or GitLab will lose customers to a paid version of GitHub.
Survey: Open Source Programs Are a Best Practice Among Large Companies
Large companies are about twice as likely to run an open source program than smaller companies (63 percent vs. 37 percent.)
Redis Pulls Back on Open Source Licensing, Citing Stingy Cloud Services
With a for-profit entity taking advantage of an “open core” business model, it remains to be seen which users will stop using the database because they want to use something with more permissive licensing.
Competing Estimates of Open Source Composition
Nine out of 10 components in the average application are open source, according to an analysis of 1,700 apps in Sonatype’s “State of the Software Supply Chain.” However, a survey of people familiar with application security by ESG provides a lower figure — only 43% believe that more than half of their enterprise’s codebase of open source.
ICOs Reveal Weakness in Open Source Blockchain Business Models
The blockchain and cryptocurrency world provides quantifiable proof that open source can both help and hurt a project’s likelihood of financial success, according to Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market, which quantifies the success of 776 initial coin offerings (ICOs) […]
How Employers Can Help Their Developers: Time for Open Source Projects
Almost half of hiring managers that recruit people with open source skills, almost half (48%) say their company decided to financially support or contribute open source projects to help with recruitment.
Open Source Policies for Dependencies
Have you ever read a survey report that claims that a certain percentage of companies use open source? We think those findings are almost always misleading. Practically every company in the world is using an open source component in their software stack. A better approach […]
Making Sense of Open Source Projects
Assessing who contributes to an open source project is not as easy as running a few queries against the GitHub API. Yet, as we continue to see, that doesn’t stop people from trying.