The bit that Simon said that made the bulb go on in my head? He said that most companies set out on a procurement process to procure a software license. That is what software is to them: licenses. That is what they know, and that is how they think. If you've ever had the fun of dealing with the contracts/procurement department of a large company you will recognise this thinking. And so with that goal in mind, of course they end up succeeding in their quest to procure a license for software
—Matt Hamilton
Monday, April 06, 2009
"Procuring" Open Source
Open source has some real problems in the market, and most of them seem to reside between the ears of the people making corporate decisions on software. Really good article on procurement perceptions here from a Plone support company (what, Plone needs support? :)
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I'm no expert on this stuff, but I looked at issues surrounding OS for my GIS MSc last year, and there was an interesting paper in IEEE Software vol.21(1) looking at how to manage the legal aspects of "Using open source software in product development: a primer" by Ruffin and Ebert, based on their experience of using OS at Alcatel. And you can get free access to Andrew St Laurent's book "Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing" under the Creative Commons licence. Open source books on using open source software, how cool is that?
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