Security and Quality Risk
Although security and quality risk are not identical, they can be lumped together as they both stem from the risk an organization faces that an open source product might contain source code of which the provenance is not well known. Open source products contain code from many different contributors, and many open source users have questions about the trustworthiness of the source code that results from those contributions.
What is the impact of using a product with many contributors?
Essentially, this risk comes down to whether a user of a software product is safer if all the engineers working on a product are employed by a commercial entity that creates it. The risks that might befall an organization because of problems ...
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