{"id":17325,"date":"2014-04-22T01:41:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T05:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=17325"},"modified":"2014-04-22T01:41:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T05:41:28","slug":"open-source-pitfalls-and-how-to-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/open-source-software\/open-source-pitfalls-and-how-to-avoid-them.php","title":{"rendered":"Open source pitfalls &#8212; and how to avoid them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    April 21, 2014, 12:26    PM  It's hard to imagine a company these days    that isn't using open source software somewhere, whether it's    Linux running a company's print and web servers, the Firefox    browser on user desktops, or the Android operating system on    mobile devices.  <\/p>\n<p>    In, fact, there are now more than a million different open    source projects, according to Black Duck Software, a maker of    open source management tools and owner of the Ohloh open source    software directory. And open source continues to grow.    According to an SAP research report, the number of open source    projects roughly doubles every 14 months.  <\/p>\n<p>    But not all open source projects are created equal. According    to Ohloh, for the 100,375 projects for which activity    information is available, around 80 percent were listed as    having low activity, very low activity or were completely    inactive.  <\/p>\n<p>    Already an Insider?     Sign in  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/software\/415458\/open-source-pitfalls-and-how-avoid-them\/RS=^ADAgGs5jjQEkDRE4orjfx85oTsxIHA-\" title=\"Open source pitfalls -- and how to avoid them\">Open source pitfalls -- and how to avoid them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> April 21, 2014, 12:26 PM It's hard to imagine a company these days that isn't using open source software somewhere, whether it's Linux running a company's print and web servers, the Firefox browser on user desktops, or the Android operating system on mobile devices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}