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How to Use Open Source Software: Features, Main Software Types, and Selection Advice
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February 1998 became one of the notable months in the software development community: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) corporation was founded and the open source label was introduced. The term represents a software development approach based on collaborative improvement and source code sharing. Prior to these events, Netscape shared a source code for its web browser, encouraging engineers worldwide to combine forces and improve the product’s newer versions.Since then, employees and startuppers have been using websites like SourceForge, Tigris, and later GitHub or Bitbucket for software download, distribution, and collaborative work.What is open source software?Open source software (OSS) is provided under a license that allows users to access, change, and improve its source code for (...)

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Want To Recruit Better Engineers ? Open Source Your Code
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“Were you aware of the #open-source software program at Facebook?”That was the question James Pearce, former head of Facebook’s open source program, asked engineers when studying why they joined the company. According to Pearce’s presentation at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention, not only were two-thirds of Facebook’s engineers aware of the open-source program before they joined the company, but half of the engineers said it “positively contributed to their decision to work for” Facebook.Facebook isn’t alone in this arena. Open sourcing code, regardless of company size, is one of the best ways to recruit top engineers. We analyzed the 30 most-applied-to U.S. tech companies of all time on AngelList and found that over half of them host open-source projects:There is an art, however, to leveraging (...)

#software-development #engineering #recruit-better-engineers #software-engineering

Open Source Knowledge Base Software Vs #saas Solution
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by Jade Emmons at Document360Open source software is a huge industry with many active projects. As a result, companies are interested in finding out more about open source knowledge base software. Using the open source model is a popular way to leverage the abilities of the crowd to produce software.There are many definitions of “open source”, but here is one from opensource.com:The term “open source” refers to something people can modify and share because its design is publicly accessible.“Open” can refer to an absence of traditional hierarchical team structures, as well as a publicly accessible design.In the case of software development, open source tends to refer to the source code of the software in that users can directly access the code. This code may be hosted in a GitHub repository (...)

#knowledge-management #saas-tools #open-source #customer-service

IssueHunt Fest 2018: Make open source sustainable
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What is IssueHunt Fest?IssueHunt Fest is a month-long OSS sponsorship event that happens every year in April and December. IssueHunt Fest 2018 will be the first time commemorable event.At the event, IssueHunt collects funds from sponsors and distribute the funds to OSS projects listed on IssueHunt.Help us build sustainable open source community by participating IssueHunt Fest 2018!Date and time of the event:Starts: December 1, 2018 Ends: December 25, 2018The economics of open source.Open-source software is the essential infrastructure of the internet stack.OSS consumes developers’ creativity and labor. Developers’ unpaid labor build OSS.Before we build IssueHunt, we managed #open-source software Boostnote, a note-taking app for developers. The project got over 11k+ Github stars in two years, (...)

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#hitchain: the Community Powered #blockchain and newest edition to #huobi Global
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Open source hosting platforms like #github, GitLab, BitBucket and SourceForge are becoming ever more popular for developers to host and review code, to manage projects and build software. With a user base of over 28 million developers and more than 1.8 million businesses and organizations using its platform, GitHub is considered the most popular project in its category. Just recently Microsoft has announced it acquired GitHub. Some say the takeover is a good thing, because now GitHub can now grow into an even bigger project and connect or collaborate with other existing Microsoft brands, while others, especially GitHub developers have trust issues with Microsoft for being a long-term opponent to open source software. Added to the fact that these kind of takeovers enable tech-giants to (...)

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Space Strategy Game ‘Star Ruler 2’ Goes Open Source
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It’s rare to hear of a well-regarded game making the jump from closed source to open source software, but space strategy game Star Ruler 2 has done just that. The (now defunct) company behind this stunning 4X real-time strategy game has released the source code for both the main game and its expansion pack to the public, for free. Why? I’ll […] This post, Space Strategy Game ‘Star Ruler 2’ Goes Open Source, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Microsoft Wants to Buy GitHub, and FOSS Fans are Freaking Out
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Is Microsoft about to buy GitHub? According to a Business Insider sources the two companies are in talks about a possible acquisition. The deal, should it come to fruition, would see Microsoft buy GitHub, is reportedly to be valued at a colossal $5 billion. But should open source software enthusiasts be worried by this? GitHub is at the heart of FOSS […] This post, Microsoft Wants to Buy GitHub, and FOSS Fans are Freaking Out, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

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A few thoughts about #Open_Source Software - Antirez weblog
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what the open source does not get back in a fair amount is money, not patches. The new startups movement, and the low costs of operations of many large IT companies, are based on the existence of so much open source code working well. Businesses should try to share a small fraction of the money they earn with the people that wrote the open source software that is a key factor for their success, and I think that a sane way to redistribute part of the money is by hiring those people to just write open source software (like VMware did with me), or to provide donations.

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