Key Takeaways Open source refers to a project, often a software or IT development project, with freely available code and permission to make edits, bug fixes, alterations, and enhancements.

Front-end web development platform startup Netlify Inc. said today it has acquired a rival company called Gatsby Inc., the creator of the open-source GatsbyJS framework, for an undisclosed fee.

They also have 61 external developers contributing to the open source project, which is helping speed up development for a young company with limited engineering resources, and helping drive interest.

Discover how open source plays a critical role in computer science and software development and its impact on innovation and accessibility in the tech industry.

Among the main open-source projects from Microsoft are Windows Terminal, VS Code, .NET MAUI, the Windows Calculator, TypeScript, the Cascadia Code font, the Windows package manager Winget ...

But each of these projects depend on smaller libraries of open-source code. And those libraries depend on other libraries. The result is a complex, but largely hidden, web of software dependencies.