Governance Problem with Open Source Software
May 4, 2012
Open source is great, but licensees want everything to be easy. That’s our takeaway from ZDNet’s “Only 20% of Corporate OSS Users Manage Components.” The piece reports on a survey from Sonatype which surveyed about 2,500 developers at companies that use open source components. Writer Paula Rooney notes:
“Roughly 20 percent, or 500 respondents, said they were locked down and could only use corporate-approved components, compared to 13 percent in a similar but smaller survey performed a year ago.
Fewer than 50 percent — 49 percent — indicated they had a corporate policy in place and 63 percent acknowledged that corporate standards are not enforced or there are none in place. But that’s still up from last year’s survey, in which almost 90 percent said there were no corporate policies at all.”
So, most companies are still too lax with their open source policies, but that status is gradually improving. That’s a good thing, since employment of open source projects is growing apace.
Founded in 2008, the relatively young Sonatype is a software company built on a powerful open source combination—Apache‘s Maven Build System and Central Repository. They are committed to supporting the open source community.
Cynthia Murrell, May 4, 2012
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