Some organisations see Open Source as a panacea.
These organisations can’t see that Open Source is missing the point.
Why?
One reason may be that your organisation is confusing Open Source with freely distributed. They are not the same. Often, I hear organisations advocating for the use of Open Source thinking that they will be able to use applications unrestrictedly. That is not necessarily true.
Why?
Let’s first clarify what freely distributed means.
An application (or software) whose source code is licensed as freely distributable can be used, studied, copied, modified and redistributed freely.
However, an application which source code is licensed as Open Source might only allow you to study its source code, while restricting your ability to use, copy, modify or redistribute that same application.
Both terms are often confused. That might be because an application that is freely distributed is necessarily Open Source, but an application that is Open Source, is not necessarily freely distributed. Richard Stallman helps me see this.