According to Will Schroeder, CEO of open-source software developer Kitware, open source creates an agile, high-quality software process and can be everyone's secret weapon. "While there are a lot of individuals and organizations producing outstanding algorithms and systems, it is all too often that we find external code is not cross-platform, breaks easily, and is inflexible and unstable in response to new data, parameter settings and computing platforms," he tells FierceHealthIT. Commentary