Open Source is not only about code
Raphaël Semeteys
- 10 Min To Read
- 19 Dec, 2018
This is the second article in our open source series. After having briefly discussed the history of open source in the first article, let’s focus now on the several dimensions or layers of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). We won’t linger much on the development side here. Obviously, coding is a large part of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. As we wrote in the first post of this Open Source Series, the evolutions of both FOSS and of the Internet are interleaved and interrelated. One of the biggest disruptions that FOSS created regarding coding is collaborative development. FOSS generated several methods and tools to coordinate and organize projects with many developers spread around the globe. Distributed Versionning Systems like Git , bug and case management systems like BugZilla , continuous integration and nightly builds, quality tools like SonarQube , etc. Today, all these tools have been adopted into our companies and are used every day as commodities by enterprise developers to design, build and implement industrial development pipelines. More recently, FOSS reinforced this trend with DevOps tools and methods, largely promoted by Open Source native companies like the Internet giants. So yes, FOSS is a major source of IT industrialization and will continue to be so.
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