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 ...

Why have Sky updated the software on my router? As part of our ongoing commitment to continue to provide new and innovative products and services to our customers, we have downloaded an updated ...

Why have Sky updated the software on my NOW TV Smart Box? As part of our ongoing commitment to continue to provide new and innovative products and services to our customers, we have downloaded an ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Open-source software powers the majority of today’s businesses. An estimated 70% to 90% of ...

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 ...

Open source software has come a long way since its early days in the 1950s and 1960s, when source code was freely shared alongside the machines it ran on, fostering a collaborative and open ...