Having risk, Usage of Open Source Without Policy

News enough nicely comes from result survey done by Gartner, a perusahan analyst,
is expressing that around 85 % company applies open source software ( OSS),
while 15 % will apply open source to start the year 2009.
Gartner does survey 274 end user in Pacific Asia, Europe, and United States in May
and June 2008, and yielded [by] around 31 % responder express has owned opening procedure
to evaluate usage OSS.



According To Gartner, without existence of opening procedure, hence company using OSS will
face related prosecution risk of illegal intellectual properties exercise. According To
Gartner, most corporation applies peripheral open source because its(the cheap cost,
and OSS doesn't hinge with one platforms only, also access quickly abusively complex.

Director research Gartner, Laurie Wurster, adds, of course this OSS free of charge given
for company, but free do not mean without cost and other risk. For the purpose,
company must have policy which is clear before adopting open source, so that conclusive
usage the application of supporter open source which is compatible,
and can identify exercise risk property intellectual properties.

source from beritanet.com