Citation
Lavazza, L., Morasca, S., Taibi, D. (2011). A Survey on open source software trustworthiness. IEEE Software. September/October 2011.
Abstract
Trustworthiness is a crucial characteristic when it comes to evaluating any product, even more so for open source software, which is now becoming widely used. The authors conducted a survey to identify the reasons and motivations that lead software companies to adopt or reject open source software; they then ranked, according to importance, the specific trust factors used when selecting an open source software component or product. The motivations and importance ranking of factors might be useful for both developers of open source software (to make their products and components more useful for other stakeholders) and to future prospective open source software users.
3 Things I Learned
Most of the users value functionality and reliability when it comes to open source software.
The trustworthiness of a software is highly subjective since it depends on how, when and by whom it will be used.
Ethics and profit are among the least things that open source software supporters seemed important in evaluating the trustworthiness of a software.
Application
There are some features of open source software that are vague to me. I think a more in-depth discussion of the software itself must be published so that information professionals will taje it into consideration when it comes to catering library and information services.
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