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        1. This week, I'm training for a certification in enterprise and solutions architecture. It's day four and open-source software has only been mentioned once in a derogatory sample exam question implying that software developers shouldn't use it and that it carries legal risk.
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        Open-source software only contains legal or intellectual property risk if you misuse it or breach the licensing attached to it. But, hey, so does proprietary-licensed software. So to suggest that open-source is inherently riskier is just wrong.
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      Other (wrong) answers to the question were: OSS can only be used on Linux operating systems; OSS can't be monetised; and OSS isn't recommended by major IT vendors. Those are all wrong answers but why put them out there for OSS in a way that you're not doing for proprietary?
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    The trainer then went on to talk about his favourite example of open-source software: Adobe Reader. Neither Adobe Reader nor Adobe Acrobat are open-source licensed software products 🤦‍♂️
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