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Your Tax Dollars Buying Open Source Software

Posted by timothy on from the once-they-have-the-money dept.

Roblimo has a story over at NewsForge about DevIS, a software company that relies on Free and open source software to not just weather but actually do well in the current software economy. Part of the reason may be that the company doesn't preach software philosophy; they just find that combining well-tested (and mostly GPL'd) software tools is the path of least resistance when it comes to building Internet applications. Most of their work is for the Federal government; always nice to see public dollars supporting public software. Can anyone point out other good examples of similar businesses?

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  1. If the government is willing to PAY for OSS... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    then I have a nice bridge to sell them. Oh wait...

  2. Re:I'd rather see... by dillon_rinker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great troll. You'd have us believe that you think Microsoft actually does systems integration for all the government agencies that use MS software, and that you think that paying money to MCSPs, consulting firms, and resellers of MS software is wastage. Replies to your post will either wonder about your relationship with Microsoft, explain to you how good Linux is, or simply bash MS. Excellent work.

  3. Re:How are public dollars supporting it? by mph · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    If you take open source software and do whateve with it, your derivative product is also open source,
    That is only true for viral licenses, such as the GPL. I do not think it is true for the Apache license.
  4. Re:OSS is perfect for this type of business by janda · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Go ahead, mod me offtopic.

    To quote the original poster:

    In the consulting business, what matters is we get the job done, not how we do it.

    Which is why no "consultant" should be allowed to work. Ever. Anywhere.

    --
    Karma: Food Fight (Mostly affected by Date Plate).
  5. Re:Update your lingo, man... by primus_sucks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually communists are bad too - North Korea anyone??? We'll nuke you all you evil bastards!!!