Origin Of Open Source Licensing

First World Savings and Loan is a financial institution that processes credit card transactions and loan applications online. We are currently considering implementing an open source infrastructure. This could potentially save us over $4,000,000 per year in licensing fees for the software we are currently using. However, due to our business needs; we must still comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). We must comply with SOX, because we are a publicly-traded financial institution; PCI-DSS, because we process online credit card transactions; and GLBA, because we are a financial institution. All

1. The main legal requirements that need to be considered, including Codes of Practice, explain the impact that these have on the organisation.

Briefly discuss the scope of the standard (i.e., explain the types of transactions to which the standard applies).

Why are standards so important for NICs, connectors, and media? Use your textbook and Internet research to justify your answer.

The shift to open-source software involved in a major cultural change for the Department of Defense. Seiferth (1999) state “ The department of Defense can realize significant gains by the formal adoption, support and use of open licensed systems. We can lower costs and improve the quality of our systems and the speed at which they are developed. Open Licensing can improve the morale and retention of airmen and improve our ability to defend the nation. These benefits are accessible at any point in the acquisition cycle and even benefit deployed and operational systems. Open Licensing can reduce acquisition, development, maintenance and support costs and increased interoperability among our own systems and those of our allies. Over the last forty-years,

The Department of Defense (DoD) considers open-source software comparable to commercial, warranting attention during purchase decisions (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). Open=-Source software is outlined as a software in which the code is available to use, make modifications, and distribute to other users. It also allows users to fix issues upon occurrence in place of waiting for the developer to resolve. This is beneficial not only for the DoD, but interfacing companies as well. By taking advantage of Web based services, development times and costs are reduced. This type software also eliminates companies which deal with the DoD from meeting specific requirements with other programs.

“ISO is commonly known as ‘International Organization for Standardization’, the ISO 9001:2000 standard is used for quality systems audited by outside auditors. This standard is applicable for manufacturing companies not only for software. This standard is given based on the documentation, design, production, testing, servicing and other processes.” (Testing Excellence.com, 2009).

As a result, there are overwhelming criticisms against Microsoft. People view Microsoft as an unethical business entity by creating “monopoly” and using unfair tactics to control the software market as a whole. Although it is important to realize that even Microsoft does not technically fit the definition of monopoly, there is no doubt that it processes tremendous power in the software industry. Along with this magical power, it could make influential decisions among governments’ rules and regulations in terms of intellectual property laws and foreign trade policies. Thus, we have to keep in mind that acting within the laws does not necessarily acting in an

With the advent of the term open source, it now appears that everything is open source, or is at least sold that way. When not applied to programming, “open content” is used to describe a wide range of activities that have nothing to do with computer software. There is still the problem of

Since OSS are more flexible we can modify the software as we wish to suit our requirements.

IETF is to make internet work better. Mission of IETF is to produce high quality, relevant technical documents which influence people to use, design and manage internet. IETF working groups are referred as WG’s. Working groups are created to address a specific problem or to produce one or more than one specific deliveries. WG’s are generally intended to be standard and short lived in nature.

Service providers looking to set up at some countries’ may need to present a certain level of standards. This highlights the importance of

In this white paper I am going to delve deeper into what open source actually is, how some certain companies use it and getting around the legal issues.

European Standards, the documents that have been ratified by one of the three European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), CEN, CENELEC or ETSI.

Some industry bodies define their own generic information security related standards too e.g. SAS 70 and PCI DSS for financial services