My Open Source Story column

Here I am, almost 20 years into my own crazy open source story, and it shows no sign of abating. And my problem is that I like to know how things work and to fix things. I…

My open source story started in high school as a student. I always considered myself to be a hacker—not the malicious type, but the curious type who liked to tinker with code…

A little while back, Rikki, Jen, and company at Opensource.com told me that they were asking people to share their open source stories about how they got interested in open…

I've been involved in open source ever since I made the switch to Linux four years ago, sometimes as a code contributor, sometimes just filing bugs and improving documentation…

I am just a fan boy, and my story's often told... Apologies to Paul Simon. I imagine my story or some slight variation of it is fairly common. I started with FOSS before it…

I've been using open source for a while—seven years, to be exact. That may not seem like a long time, but when you're 16 that's almost half your life. My open source story is…