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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Time for Open Source Software Vendors to Think Beyond Free

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Thinking that free is the only aspect of software that matters is "freetarded"

Time for Open Source Software Vendors to Think Beyond Free
— Of the many sins that Silicon Valley practices, none are more dangerous or prevalent than the sin of smugness. Savio Rodrigues has a good posting making the point that Microsoft is learning from and adapting to the open-source movement, while the open-source movement is so enamored with 'free' that they are not paying enough attention to the total cost of ownership from a customer's perspective.

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