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Open source software revolutionizes industry landscape, posing risk to vendors.

Open Source Software: Risk or Opportunity?
Sylvain Wallez

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Open source software has rapidly changed the software industry, including embedded software. This paper explores why companies use open source software and why software publishers can't ignore it. It discusses whether open source software is a risk or opportunity for software vendors. By looking at trends in information systems and middleware, the paper predicts changes in the embedded software industry in the future.