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Open Source Software - An Enterprise Perspective

by Open-source software (OSS) or FOSS (with prefix Free) is one term that is getting a lot of traction in recent years. However, the history of OSS goes back in the late '90s and its evolution since then is quite a journey to watch that how perspective around open source software and communities made a lean shift and a big leap around various technology-driven organizations.

Looking at the above title it is clear that we are referring to the general definition of publicly available OSS which organizations can utilize for their in-house development.

It is important to understand for organizations that properly governed OSS at the least includes a certain category of open source license.