Surveys Show Increase In OSS Popularity

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 20, 2006 @10:24AM from the popular-penguins dept.

segphault writes "Ars Technica takes a look at the results of two different surveys about open source software adoption." From the article: "The survey also addresses the most important question: what motivates organizations to adopt open source software? According to Optaros, cost savings is one of the most significant factors. Optaros says that companies with over US$1 billion annual revenue reported average savings of $3.3 million in 2004 as a result of open source technology, and companies with annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion reported an average savings of $1.1 million."

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Money that should have gone to developers... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-20 11:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I for one can't understand why the software industry is basically the ONLY ONE giving away the result of its work and talent. It's pretty much like saying the software and thus the engineering & programming skills required are worthless. People now *expect* their software to be free. Do they think software writes itself?
As a computer engineer, I find that ridiculous. Flexibility? Reliability? yeah right. I seriously doubt any of these companies have touched the source code of their OSS. They get it because it's free.

3.3 M$ in savings? that should have gone in the pockets of software developers.