Editing Open-source software (section)

===Advantages===
Open source implementation of a standard can increase adoption of that standard.<ref name="dod16">{{cite web|last1=US Department of Defense|title=Open Source Software FAQ|url=https://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/|website=Chief Information Officer|access-date=22 July 2016|archive-date=28 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828150638/http://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/|url-status=live}}</ref> This creates developer loyalty as developers feel empowered and have a sense of ownership of the end product.<ref name="Sharma2002">{{cite journal | first=Srinarayan | last=Sharma | author2=Vijayan Sugumaran | author3=Balaji Rajagopalan | title=A framework for creating hybrid-open source software communities | journal=Information Systems Journal | volume=12 | year=2002 | pages=7–25 | url=http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~in953/lectures/papers/ISJAFrameworkForCreatingHybrid-OpenSourceSoftwareCommunities.pdf | doi=10.1046/j.1365-2575.2002.00116.x | s2cid=5815589 | access-date=8 September 2008 | archive-date=30 October 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030014215/http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~in953/lectures/papers/ISJAFrameworkForCreatingHybrid-OpenSourceSoftwareCommunities.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>

Moreover, lower costs of marketing and logistical services are needed for OSS.<ref name=":21" /> OSS can be a tool to promote a company's image, including its commercial products.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Profiting from Open Source | first=John | last=Landry |author2=Rajiv Gupta | journal=[[Harvard Business Review]] |date=September 2000 | doi=10.1225/F00503 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 }}</ref> The OSS development approach has helped produce reliable, high quality software quickly and inexpensively.<ref name=":21">{{cite journal | title=Open Source, Open Standards, and Health Care Information Systems | last=Reynolds | first=Carl |author2=Jeremy Wyatt | journal=[[Journal of Medical Internet Research]] |date=February 2011 | doi=10.2196/jmir.1521 | pmid=21447469 | pmc=3221346 | volume=13 | issue=1 | pages=e24 | doi-access=free }}</ref>

Open source development offers the potential to quicken innovation and create of social value.<ref name=":35" /> In France for instance, a policy that incentivized government to favor free open-source software increased to nearly 600,000 OSS contributions per year, generating social value by increasing the quantity and quality of open-source software.<ref name=":35" /> This policy also led to an estimated increase of up to 18% of tech startups and a 14% increase in the number of people employed in the IT sector.<ref name=":35">{{Cite journal |last=Nagle |first=Frank |date=3 March 2019 |title=Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness |url=https://www.cin.ufpe.br/~in953/lectures/papers/ISJAFrameworkForCreatingHybrid-OpenSourceSoftwareCommunities.pdf| journal=Information Systems Journal| volume=12| language=en| doi=10.2139/ssrn.3355486 |ssrn=3355486 |s2cid=85509685 }}</ref>

OSS can be highly reliable when it has thousands of independent programmers testing and fixing bugs of the software.<ref name=":11" /> Open source is not dependent on the company or author that originally created it.<ref name=":55" /> Even if the company fails, the code continues to exist and be developed by its users.<ref name=":55" />

OSS is flexible because modular systems allow programmers to build custom interfaces, or add new abilities to it and it is innovative since open-source programs are the product of collaboration among a large number of different programmers.<ref name=":11" /> The mix of divergent perspectives, corporate objectives, and personal goals speeds up innovation.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Hal | last=Plotkin | title=What (and Why) you should know about open-source software | journal=Harvard Management Update |date=December 1998 | pages=8–9  }}</ref>

Moreover, free software can be developed in accordance with purely technical requirements.<ref name=":36" /> It does not require thinking about commercial pressure that often degrades the quality of the software.<ref name=":36" /> Commercial pressures make traditional software developers pay more attention to customers' requirements than to security requirements, since such features are somewhat invisible to the customer.<ref name=":36">{{cite journal | first=Christian | last=Payne | title=On the Security of Open Source Software | journal= Information Systems Journal|date=February 2002 | volume=12 | issue=1 | pages=61–78 | doi=10.1046/j.1365-2575.2002.00118.x| s2cid=8123076 }}</ref>