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Open Source: Facts and Figures

Posted by Hemos on from the learning-more-about-it dept.

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."

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  1. Re:a 400 meg document by fitten · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol... damn my lack of mod points! ;)

  2. Pirating Word by null+etc. · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    So apparently computers that are purchased with Linux are then reformatted to run pirated copies of Windows XP (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/30 /1254220&tid=163&tid=201&tid=1&tid=218).

    Does this mean that computers that are purchased with OpenOffice are then "upgraded" with pirated copies of Microsoft Office 2004?

    If so, no wonder why Microsoft claims that Open Source stifles innovation and is more expensive to support than commercial software! This post is intended to be insightful. Moderate as such.