Your Tax Dollars Buying Open Source Software

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 29, 2003 @10:00AM 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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Re:Post it by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-29 10:06 · Score: -1, Redundant

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Re:I'd rather see... by NineNine · 2003-01-29 11:17 · Score: -1, Redundant

That "software license" fee isn't just funny money. It does to pay for development. Oracle, HP, and MS had to pay a lot of people for development of their software. GenericOSSCompany doesn't. That moeny gets paid to developers, marketing people, etc. That money creates jobs, pays taxes again, supports investments, etc. That doesn't happen with OSS. Nobody is paid for development.