The background of Validos - "Let there be co-operation"

Working as an outside counsel, it has happened to me more than once that our firm has been asked to legally validate an open source /FOSS package that somebody else already asked us to validate.

The validation work, comprising of reviewing of a software packages technical and legal qualities, is conventionally done in each company separately, i.e. many times. The basic part of the work is very similar in every user (redistributor) entity.  

• Reduced costs of FOSS development management, since the generic part of the validation is done only once.
  

• Easier and faster decision on whether to use FOSS, own development or third party product. When you don't have to wait for a validation process to return a value (the value can be directly gotten from the database of the collaborative body), you do not rely on your own development that often any more.