1 year ago

Companies have an open source problem — and the opportunity to do better. https://upstream.live/, a virtual conference held last week, looked at how companies can become better open source citizens, particularly in supporting projects across their lifespan. At any given company, as much as 70% of their stack may be open source; but there’s a deficit in terms of what they contribute, he contended.

“The majority of organizations today are more in a position of using open source software, but not necessarily giving back to open source software in an upstream sense.”

Here are five steps the group of open source experts recommended companies do to become stand-up open source citizens: Know Thy Open Source Self