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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. Re:Open Source? More like Openly Racist by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... Linux, features commands which are poorly disguised racist acronyms. For example: 'awk' (All White Klan) , 'sed' (shoot nEgroes dead), 'ln' (lynch negroes), 'rpm' (raical purity mandatory), 'bash' (bring a slave home), 'ps' (persecute sambo), 'mount' (murder or unseat nubians today), 'fsck' (favored supreme Christian klan).

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  2. other benefits to open source?? by littlerubberfeet · · Score: 1, Troll

    1 Its cool

    2 Its slanted towards nerds: we actually GET the cool interfaces and technology

    3 It is, of course, in direct disagreement with the EVIL EMPIRE, Microsoft

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