Survey: Open Source Programs Are a Best Practice Among Large Companies

Survey: Open Source Programs Are a Best Practice Among Large Companies

<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/survey-open-source-programs-are-a-best-practice-among-large-companies.png" width="1600" height="1067" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Open source software programs play an important role in how DevOps and open source best practices are adopted by organizations, according to a survey conducted by The New Stack and <a class="ext-link" href="http://bit.ly/2sFACln">The Linux Foundation</a> (via the <a class="ext-link" href="https://todogroup.org/">TODO Group</a>). By implementing <a class="ext-link" href="https://todogroup.org/guides/create-program/">open source best practices</a>, organizations are helping developers become both more productive and more structured in how they manage the often abundant open source software their businesses rely on.</p>
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<p>Thousands of open source projects have participants from organizations with open source offices that consume — and in turn contribute back to — any number of projects. The interest is showing enough results to merit companies considering deeper and more focused approaches to the development of the open source offices they manage.</p>
<p>Open source programs generally have three core characteristics: they 1) execute and communicate the organization’s open source software strategy, 2) maintain license compliance, and, most of all, 3) foster open source culture.</p>
<p>Read more at <a href="https://thenewstack.io/survey-open-source-programs-are-a-best-practice-among-large-companies/">The New Stack</a></p>
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