<div dir="ltr">Sustainable open source projects are those that are capable of supporting themselves. Simply put, they are able to meet their ongoing costs.<br><br>However, from the viewpoint of selection and procurement, sustainability also means that the project is capable of delivering improvements and fixing problems with its products in a timely manner, and that the project itself has a reasonable prospect of continuing into the future.<br>
<br>Elsewhere on our site you can find articles describing some of the many formal approaches to evaluating open source software as part of the Software Sustainability Maturity Model.<div><br><a href="http://opensource.com/life/14/1/evaluate-sustainability-open-source-project">http://opensource.com/life/14/1/evaluate-sustainability-open-source-project</a></div>
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