Delving Into The Risks And Rewards Of The Open-Source Ecosystem
InformationWeek, Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Open-source software fuels the digital world, but how can enterprises manage its risks?
The backdoor discovered in the XZ Utils data compression software earlier this year kicked off a flurry of discussion on the risks of open-source software. Addressing that risk is not as simple as enterprise leadership deciding to eliminate the use of open-source software. In fact, that course of action is next to impossible.
'The overwhelming majority of programming languages (and their basic tools) are open-source, and the ones that aren't are dying out. Without an iota of doubt, open-source technologies are the very foundations on which the digital world has been built,' Quazi Nafiul Islam, developer advocate at Sonar, a developer of open-source software for continuous code quality, tells InformationWeek in an email interview.