Editing Open-source software (section)

=== Industry participation ===
The adoption of open-source software by industry is increasing over time.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last1=Spinellis |first1=Diomidis |last2=Giannikas |first2=Vaggelis |date=2012 |title=Organizational adoption of open source software |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0164121211002512 |journal=Journal of Systems and Software |language=en |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=666–682 |doi=10.1016/j.jss.2011.09.037}}</ref> OSS is popular in several industries such as [[telecommunications]], [[aerospace]], [[Health care|healthcare]], and [[Media & Entertainment|media & entertainment]] due to the benefits it provides.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Zhang |first1=Yiming |last2=Malhotra |first2=Baljeet |last3=Chen |first3=Cheng |chapter=Industry-Wide Analysis of Open Source Security |date=2018 |title=2018 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8514185 |publisher=IEEE |pages=1–10 |doi=10.1109/PST.2018.8514185 |isbn=978-1-5386-7493-2|s2cid=53234981 }}</ref> Adoption of OSS is more likely in larger organizations and is dependent on the company's IT usage, operating efficiencies, and the productivity of employees.<ref name=":6" />

Industries are likely to use OSS due to back-office functionality, sales support, research and development, software features, quick deployment, portability across platforms and avoidance of commercial license management.<ref name=":6" /> Additionally, lower cost for [[Computer hardware|hardware]] and ownership are also important benefits.<ref name=":6" />