Advocating Linux / OSS to Management.

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 5, 2007 @01:19AM from the don't-envy-that-position dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm the Senior Developer at a fairly large agency, we're currently a 100% LAMP shop, but I've heard a reliable report through the grapevine that the management a few levels above our office wants to standardize our region on MS .NET. As I'm sure most of you can appreciate, to do such a thing would be... counterproductive, and I could really do with a hand conveying this to a manager whose only real knowledge of Linux is "if it's so good, why would you give it away for free"?"

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Re:What is your software used for? by petrus4 · 2007-08-05 02:58 · Score: 0, Troll

Because of the GPL distribution requirement, our legal staff does not permit GPL licensed components to be used in applications. We have some allowances for BSD, Apache and in some cases LGPL, because they do not mandate source code distribution, which for competitive reasons we do not wish to do.

Yep. Sound economic logic; something which the GPL zealots are sadly rather short of.