NOiV promotes collaboration
February 17th, 2009 | Published in open standards, oss
One important aspect of open source is often overlooked: collaboration. Open source enables organizations to collaborate on building the software they need. Too often open source is just consumed: downloaded and installed because it’s free.
To my surprise, the report i mentioned earlier, Ranking OS and OSS: NOIV monitor does reward organizations that release their own software with an open source license. It’s on the list of criteria by which the organizations are ranked: NOiV toelichting.
I think this is a very important aspect in the adoption of open source: government agencies that collaborate on software, instead of every organization writing their own version of something. There’s a big opportunity for, for example. local government to collaborate on software. There are about 470 municipalities in the netherlands, that all do the same things, and all need more or less the same software. Why not collaborate on this?
