What is open source software, and what’s so great about it?

What is open source software, and what’s so great about it? The open source advocates – Andy, Andrew and Peter – wax lyrical about the benefits of open development, explain the joys of the open source community, and explain how enterprise organizations can end up with better, more secure products based on software licensed to include the source code. Plus, find out what we made of http://fosdem.org ’21, as Europe’s biggest open source event went virtual for the first time this year.

chapters

• 0:00 – Intros
• 2:28 – What is open source?
• 4:29 – The cloud is touted as more cost efficient – but is it?
• 9:10 – There’s no open support for open source software
• 13:32 – Open source software is less secure than proprietary software
• 17:40 – Open source software is not enterprise-level software
• 19:45 – Organizations should be wary/reluctant to embrace open source software
• 28:12 – Our FOSDEM highlights
• 34:58 – Parting words of wisdom on open source!

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