In 2018 URISA published a Fact Sheet about open source GIS. One sentence in the sheet reads:
Forbes magazine publishes articles encouraging corporate managers to involve their staff members in open source development, and highlighting the advantages of open source.
The sentence includes links to two articles. Shweta Saraf 's article is titled Why Your Engineers Should Spend More Time Writing Open Source Software Code. Laurence Bradford's piece is How Open-Source Development Is Democratizing The Tech Industry. That's what prompted the question in the title and two others:
- Does Forbes endorse open source software via these articles?
- Does the fact that these articles are published on Forbes.com give them authority?