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"Talking to developers and reading about open source I often get the feeling that the general notion is that open source is just about code and commits. Put another way, "If you don't make commits for a project you are not contributing to it." Or so they say. That notion is far from the truth in my eyes. Let me tell you why."

"Talking to developers and reading about open source I often get the feeling that the general notion is that open source is just about code and commits. Put another way, "If you don't make commits for a project you are not contributing to it." Or so they say. That notion is far from the truth in my eyes. Let me tell you why."

"CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden attends a couple of conferences and comes away with both an understanding of Enterprise IT's commitment to open source and some practical advice for anyone considering open source enterprise solutions."

"CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden attends a couple of conferences and comes away with both an understanding of Enterprise IT's commitment to open source and some practical advice for anyone considering open source enterprise solutions."

Community and commitment to open source matter most "At the most recent Apple World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced they would "open source the next version of its programming language Swift." This minimally means they will publish the source code to Swift using an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved open source license. That's all really."

"At the most recent Apple World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced they would "open source the next version of its programming language Swift." This minimally means they will publish the source code to Swift using an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved open source license. That's all really."

"In 2014, cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean decided to encourage contribution to open source software projects, so they sponsored Hacktoberfest. More than 500 participants completed the challenge by making at least 50 commits to projects. This year, DigitalOcean wanted to focus on improving projects"

"In 2014, cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean decided to encourage contribution to open source software projects, so they sponsored Hacktoberfest. More than 500 participants completed the challenge by making at least 50 commits to projects. This year, DigitalOcean wanted to focus on improving projects"

"In today's open source world, there are a number of very large communities that have tangible incentives for contributing to projects. Commits that make it into the master branch of Docker can attract tips, and once you become an Active Technical Contributor for OpenStack you get a number of perks, including free entry to the next OpenStack Summit."

"Summary: Microsoft continues its vicious patent war on anything resembling competition (however small), even the competition against which Microsoft previously committed competition abuses/crimes (subject of court cases) in order to attain total monopoly"

"The Hello World project is a time-honored tradition in computer programming. It is a simple exercise that gets you started when learning something new. Let's get started with GitHub! You'll learn how to: Create and use a repository Start and manage a new branch Make changes to a file and push them to GitHub as commits Open and merge a pull request"

"In open source software, if you contribute enough patches to the code base, most projects will make you a committer. I guess I shouldn't be surprised then that when you write enough articles for Opensource.com, they give you your own column."