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Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion?
conan1989 writes to tell us that a recent report from the Standish Group is claiming that open source is costing the traditional software market somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 billion per year in revenue. "MySQL Marten Mickos has often spoken of 'taking a $10 billion market and making it a $3 billion market.' If you consider that open source has taken out $60 billion of traditional software revenues there will be a bloodletting in the proprietary world soon enough. It's a great time to be an open source company."
We just completed a study for a company selling bottled oxygen: the free availability of air on the planet causes them losses in the neighborhood of $866 billions in revenue -- annually!
ME TOO! I have lost $94 million dollars last Friday ,and countless billions over the last few years, due to some other euromillions lottery players...
When all is said and done, nothing changes...
This is Slashdot. We know that there is no need to pay people to break Windows. It was already broken when we got here
I often wonder how many billions all the free high-quality insight and advice that we give out here at Slashdot costs consultants in lost revenue.