Upsides And Downsides Of Open Source Adoption
InforQ, Friday, December 29,2023
According to Hila Fish, the benefits of open source projects are supporting rapid innovation, the flexibility provided to customize and adapt tools, and transparency of the code which can enhance security efforts.
The downsides are that security by obscurity doesn't apply, open source is potentially prone to abuse, and when open source tools are not backed up by companies, it might result in a lower level of maintainability.
Hila Fish spoke about the DevOps perspective on open source at DEV: Challenge Accepted 2023.