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And that's pretty much it for the news. Today, the Microsoft-owned company says, only 16.5 percent of active GitHub users and 6.44 percent of npm users use 2FA. That is not a lot and frankly fewer ...

When developers contribute code to an open source project maintained by a corporation or foundation, they typically pass control of the donated code’s copyright to the steward company or give it ...

However, not enough of those businesses are contributing code back to the open-source community, said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, at the Red Hat Summit.

However, not enough of those businesses are contributing code back to the open-source community, said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, at the Red Hat Summit.

That is not a lot, and frankly fewer than I would have expected. “Compromised accounts can be used to steal private code or push malicious changes to that code.

In her report, Kramer, who is also a columnist for Poynter, wrote about different ways people can contribute to public media stations. One idea Kramer suggests: code.