Jeffrey P. Brown

Using Open Source Software Responsibly Today, most companies incorporate open source software (OSS) into the software products they create. This helps companies to: Drive down costs, Accelerate product delivery, and Focus on the unique capabilities of their products. While using OSS can accelerate your product delivery and improve your bottom line, unbridled use of OSS, without proper review and management approval, may place your intellectual property and your company at risk. In Open Source Software: Implementing a Successful OSS Management Practice, author Jeffrey P. Brown helps you navigate the world of OSS to achieve your desired business outcomes. This book cuts through the OSS myths and provides detailed guidance on how to select and responsibly use OSS. In this book, you learn how to: Select software that not only meets your functional and technical needs, but helps you reduce cost and accelerate delivery Design and implement an OSS introduction process that supports responsible use, minimizes your risks, and accelerates your response to newly found security holes in your software Create additional revenue opportunities for your company Change the competitive landscape when competing with industry giants Navigate and mitigate OSS license risks This book includes a step-by-step procedure for you to use to create an OSS introduction process that is custom fit to your unique needs.

Much of the previous literature in the field of safety focuses on either the technical equipment issues or the human performance factors that contribute to the active failures in safety-critical systems. However, this book provides guidance in the moral or ethical aspects of decision-making that perpetuate many of the latent failures in safety-critical systems. The book presents an interdisciplinary discussion of ethical decision-making and discusses the need to teach ethical decision-making in professional academic programs. It provides a concise introduction to the ethical foundations and follows up with case studies from aviation, healthcare, and environmental and occupational health. These cases illustrate the challenges faced by the individuals in their respective field and the reasons for the choices that they made in the face of adversities. Safety Ethics gives a fascinating insight into ethical decision-making for all those interested or involved in safety-critical environments. The book will be an extremely valuable guide for professionals in making decisions consistent with their beliefs and code of ethics.