Open Source Software offers many advantages. In order to use it successfully, securely and long-term, it is important to consider certain sustainability criteria when choosing a provider. In the position paper at hand the Open Source Business Alliance maps out the four most important selection criteria and offers crucial advice especially for entities in a tender offer on how they can choose providers that can reliably ensure the successful use of the software, because they contribute to the further development and maintenance of the corresponding open-source solution.

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The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a European regulatory initiative to oblige manufacturers, distributors and importers of products with digital components to higher security standards for their products or services. The Open Source Business Alliance explicitly supports the goals of the Cyber Resilience Act to increase the quality and security standards of IT products and see commercial software providers as having a responsibility in this regard. However, some currently still fuzzy formulations in the current drafts pose a considerable threat to the European open source ecosystem and thus to the ability of the entire European IT sector to innovate and create value. The German government must therefore work to ensure that the open source ecosystem is adequately protected in the upcoming trilogue negotiations.

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