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By investing in open-source software, government agencies, companies, and non-profit organizations can leverage their investments to create shared, public benefits. In effect, those who invest in open-source software are attempting to "pool" their investments to create software that lives in the public commons. Part of organizations' hoped-for return on their open-source investments is that other organizations will also invest in ongoing, incremental improvements to the same software, yielding continued benefits at no additional cost. Additionally, adopting open-source software can reduce vendor lock-in to high-cost, proprietary software.[1] Developing open-source software is a complex undertaking given the competing demands of software code that is both (a) sufficiently generalizable to be useful to a diverse array of users, and (b) sufficiently tailored to any given end-users' needs. It is also challenging to coordinate open-source software development, especially when there are many

Open-source software - TransitWiki Open-source software From TransitWiki Jump to navigation Jump to search Contents 1 Benefits 2 Practices that support open-source software 3 Transportation agencies supporting open-source software 4 Private companies developing open-source transportation software 5 Non-profit organizations developing open-source transportation software 6 Open-source transportation software projects 6.1 OneBusAway [2] 6.2 OpenTripPlanner [3] 6.3 TheTransitClock [4] Benefits By investing in open-source software, government agencies, companies, and non-profit organizations can le

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