Enterprise Programming Lessons from an Open Source Architect

In the secretive and profit-focused world of proprietary software development, the open source community stands as the champion for doing things differently. The application architects and the midnight-oil burning software developers who make open source software (OSS) work believe that the driving principles of open source software success are the FACTS:

•     Freedom
•     Accessibility
•     Collaboration
•     Transparency
•     Sharing

Yet even companies that eat, sleep and breathe open source are still failing to really take advantage of all the benefits this model has to offer. Raymond Augé, Senior Software Architect at Liferay, recently shared his insights about several mistakes open source firms make in this area by not going far enough.