OSS in a cloud native world
In the previous post, I discussed the two most widespread misconceptions about OSS, that OSS is for free and that it does not create any lock-in.
Misconceptions about OSS
In the previous post, I discussed the rise of OSS, the positive effects it had and how it changed software development. At the end of the post I mentioned that also some misconceptions sneaked in. These I will discuss in this post.
The rise of OSS
When I started to discuss accidental complexity on the architectural level in my “Simplify!” blog series, I quickly realized that I needed to discuss Open Source Software (OSS) first as it often acts as a driver of accidental complexity on the architectural level today.
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