Open source is still often looked at as free software, as in no cost. Those who think this is the value of OSS, they usually use and integrate it in a more expensive way than they should.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast Philipp Ahmann talks about his experience with open source in the automotive industry, which is very sensitive to development, innovation and maintenance costs. He also shares a story about attempting to fix a plane's entertainment system in flight. Did he succeed?

Learn more about:

- Cost savings through relying on open source

- The importance of reusability, and how open source supports that

- Vendor lock-in with open source

- The price of maintaining a fork downstream

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