Despite its overwhelming advantages, open source adoption is inhibited by concerns about the availability of reliable support, which is often needed to address security concerns. That is one of eight conclusions from the survey The New Stack conducted with Tidelift.
If open source has become the default stack for modern developers, then get ready for an onslaught of challenges as companies struggle to get reliable support for up-to-date code. In June 2019, Tidelift and The New Stack surveyed 369 people that use open source software to build applications at work. Across a range of criteria, respondents believe open source is inherently better than proprietary software.
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