Diversity
Recruiting and retaining excellent technical staff members via FOSS allows your company to build a more diverse (and therefore more effective) team.[38] Most companies are relatively local in scope. While their products and services may be widely available, the company headquarters is in a single geographic area. Free and open source software, on the other hand, is global. Each project community can have members and participants from all over the world. This wealth of different perspectives is one of the reasons FOSS can out-innovate just about any commercial effort on the planet.
Aside from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) being the right thing to do, studies show that it’s also very good for a company’s bottom line.[39] A ...
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