Business Success with Open Source

Chapter 8Inbound FOSS in Your Corporate Strategy

For better or worse, there’s a lot of room for improvement where corporate FOSS strategy is concerned—any corporate strategy, really, but FOSS strategy in particular. In my experience, most corporate approaches to free and open source software is, at best, purely tactical and reactionary. FOSS rarely plays a decisive role in overall corporate strategy, which is unfortunate, considering the oversized role it plays in the success of business operations for most organizations. Typically, if a company has acknowledged FOSS as a driving force in the business at all, it’s still relegated to an understaffed and underfunded corner of the org chart, fighting the good fight to help the company do the right ...