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Why Use Free/Open Source Software?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quantitative-analysis dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "I came across Why Use Open Source / Free Software? at Linux Today. As the author says in his intro: "This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using Open Source / Free Source software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures." Good to see stuff we've known / suspected for some time backed up by real data...."

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  1. Free as in pirated? by AndrewCox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why use free/open source software when you can get the commercial software for free?

    We've all heard how software pirating hurts the commercial software industry, but how about the cheap bastards that would otherwise be using free/open source applications?

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