As I also work for a site which runs on Drupal, http://www.journalisten.no , I don’t necessarily share Sund’s views, but I thought it was interesting to hear the views of someone who is both working on digital development in the same company and knows a lot about digital development and newspapers.

An open source project, be it Apache, Drupal, MySQL, Linux, whatever, has a team of developers in the tens of thousands, compared with a few hundred for even the biggest closed source “Black Box” project. As a result, more usage, more eyeballs, FASTER security fixes, coupled with transparent code that you are free to modify if you don’t like something.

A growing number of world governments, who are arguably the most risk-aversed software purchasers of all, are moving to open source software because it offers far higher security (and, most importantly, the ability to review the code and judge for yourself). They are shunning the big black box software producers. The concept that somehow open source is a security risk belongs with the dinosaurs.

As you might assumed – we use Drupal too