Open Source

I believe going open source with some sort of supervision or restrictions by the company, wouldn’t be so bad for a business to use. Reason being, you get a glimpse of different opinions about different aspects on what you have open to the public. Sometimes it is great to get users point of views in order to tweak, make improvements and learn off of what might have been changed; and of course doing our research before allowing the change. I believe the only challenge we might have as being open sourced, is trying to convinced the world that our information can be trusted. Normally when individuals are aware that a site that their using is open sourced, it causes mistrust because they know it might have been tweaked by any ordinary individual. Perfect example, Wikipedia. Most professors enforce not using it when we have research assignments because it is open source and it’s not guaranteed that the information is correct. According to The Political Economy of Open Source, the idea of distributing source code freely was seen as a natural offshoot of standard research practice; indeed, it was mostly taken for granted. Which is something I can truly believe because look at Wiki again as an example. People begin to take advantage of the fact that they’re now able to mess with something. Which can ruin it for someone who really is eager to find and learn from research especially from an open source. In some cases, some individuals prefer open source because the person who wrote it might have experienced or deeply researched the topic. Sort of like Yelp, when doing a review, you know it’s from someone who visited the place. Which is a very helpful option for more individuals because it helps us in a way that we need to be helped.