"Organizations can benefit significantly from participating with
Open Source communities and using the Open Source development
model. But organizational policies designed to maximize resource
utilization and ensure security can prevent an organization from
effectively engaging with Open Source communities and fully
realizing the benefits of the Open Source development model.
"Proprietary software development practices lend themselves well
to hierarchical policy disciplines that place a premium on tightly
controlling processes and resources. However, effectively taking
advantage of the Open Source development model may require
modifications to certain organizational policies. This paper
explores organizational policies that can prevent, or can be
modified to enable, effective engagement with Open Source
communities or internal use of the Open Source development
model..."
