But no shortage of bug reports in the open source code area make me wonder if the latter is sort of a rush-job.
Already we are seeing companies open source key areas of IP such as Google's TensorFlow ML platform, in a bid to attract companies and developers to their platform.
An open letter to Microsoft published today by Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack, weighs heavily on the open source aspect, an area where Microsoft has not been known to excel in enterprise software in the past.
It's also supporting many open source projects, an area that's clearly becoming increasingly important to customers who no longer want to be beholden to vendor lock-in.
We attempt to present the evidence in such a way that it is useful for researchers, business leaders or government officials who may be interested in applying the concepts of open source to novel areas.
This chapter discusses the areas where open source is succeeding, and then the areas where open source has advantages and disadvantages, real or apparent.
Proprietary software will continue to hold sway in some application areas that are classified or specialized, but in many other areas, open source is ideal.
Pivotal was hearing from customers that they wanted the flexibility of open source software in other areas, which also helped pushed the company to make this move.
This algorithm is semi-automatic and easy to upgrade or correct (no hand drawn areas), open source, detailed and provides rules of thumb for PV system design at the municipal level.
Lots of potentially useful drugs could be sitting under researchers' noses.The second area where open source might be able to help would be in developing treatments for diseases that afflict small numbers of people, such as Parkinson's disease, or are found mainly in poor countries, such as malaria.
