Open Source: Facts and Figures

Eloquence writes "Much of the debate about GNU/Linux and open source is dominated by rhetoric rather than facts. David Wheeler has just released a new version of his "paper" (which, at 440,000 characters, is more of an e-book now) 'Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!'. According to David, this paper 'examines market share, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership. It also has sections on non-quantitative issues, unnecessary fears, OSS/FS on the desktop, usage reports, other sites providing related information, and ends with some conclusions.' May come in handy when talking to your boss about Linux."

Comments

440,000 characters??

[Anonymous Coward]

More like War and Peace... :p

a 400 meg document

[stratjakt]

To describe why we don't need a lot of rhetoric to support linux.

I know "irony" isn't the correct word to use, but I don't feel like thinking of the right one.

To summarize: Some blowhard likes linux and wont shut up about it

Re:a 400 meg document

[Anonymous Coward]

i think you mean 400k. 400,000 characters.

Unless each "character" is a 1k chinese pictogram image or something

Re:a 400 meg document

[Anonymous Coward]

I think that he's just assuming that it's in MS Word format.

ends with what?

[eddeye]

It also ... ends with some conclusions.'

You fools! That's exactly what they expect! You can't fight the system playing by their rules! It should end with a tangent. Or an introduction. They'll never see that coming!

You damned fools, you've played right into their hands! We're doomed, doomed, doomed ...