This Beginner’s Guide explores the nuances of choosing proprietary or OSS, outlining common trade-offs, relevant costs, and security and privacy concerns that are most common. The goal of this Beginner’s Guide is to offer practitioners in the social sector, namely M&E professionals, data analysts, software engineers, among others, a summary of potential tradeoffs.
The Guide was originally published on the MERL Center platform. Discover the guide here!
