Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

Commercial open source is often framed in the wrong way. On one side, you have people who treat open source as a moral commitment that becomes compromised the moment money enters the picture. On the ...

I’ve heard it a dozen times: “We’re going to release this app as open source, as soon as we clean it up.” It’s always made me wonder what, exactly, needs to be cleaned up, and what it looked like ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

Beyond uniting developers under shared ideologies, goals and pain points, Open Source Summit North America ignited conversations at the intersection of code, community and change. Against the backdrop ...