“I just talked with two CIOs who have different takes on
embedding open source software in their companies’ products. One
sees it as standard practice, the other approaches it like a snake
in a bag.“One gentleman is the CIO of an engine manufacturing company. He
says the engineers in his firm regularly embed open source software
in the company’s products. From what he was saying, it sounded like
this was a standard practice in his industry, and that he didn’t
have much to do with it. Otherwise, his company didn’t use much
open source software in its IT environment…”