Many companies have reservations about using open-source software, preferring instead to use commercially-supported products.
Companies who have used open-source software tend to use it because:
- It’s often cutting-edge, created by developers who needed it for their own projects
- If any bugs are found, they can be quickly patched; this patch can then be contributed to the project maintainers
- It’s easier to pin down the source of any bugs, since the source code is available
- Commercial software can be buggy too, and updates can be slow in coming
- It’s free!
I’m a lead developer on the open-source projects mentioned here.
For more information on Software development I’ve been involved in, please see Tyburn and JBehave.
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