Sourcing OSS solutions is a new and less understood area for Government Agencies. As a recult, it often seems to involve higher risk. As open source solutions become more mainstream and agencies gain expertise in evaluating and deploying them, this perception of risk should subside. (主要是講 OSS 在政府機構較少被接觸到,所以被誤解為較為危險,但實際上當 OSS 變成主流時,他的危險性反而比較低。我們可以舉 Apache Server 近七成的佔有率看出來)
Access to source code is, however, valuable to agencies by virtue of the economic flow-on effects that accrue when multiple vendors offer competing products based on the same technology. Access to source code also reduces the risk of vendor lock-in. (而 Open Source 另外一個最大的好處在於阻止壟斷,進而降低成本)
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