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Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-time-to-be-open-source dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Broken Window Fallacy by derekrodgers · · Score: -1, Troll

    21 GET

  2. Re:Broken Window Fallacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a really good reason attacking Iraq! Yea, we are public benefactors, trying to make the lives of those Iraq's better! Now, for us, the poor Americans, who's going to do us a favor by breaking our windows? Ah, 911 did that and were we grateful to them? Instead we called them terrorists and sent our troops after them to break their windows. So actually we were helping them more by breaking more of their windows! I feel really good now, thanks to that parable!

  3. FACT: Open sauce is communism !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stallman is a devote commie, pinko-pinky commie even. Think will all your might and even you will finally realize this as FACT !! Slave labor ?? Spend as little time as possible MAKING but a lot of time CONSUMING ?? Yupper, you are a communist !! Drive a junker with a bumper sticker that reads, My other car is a Yuog !! Yup, you're a communist !!

  4. Re:Broken Window Fallacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    >What is a loss for proprietary software providers is a win for former proprietary software users.

    That would only be true if the open source developers were as competent and motivated as proprietary software developers, which is simply not the case.

    What Open Source is doing is globalizing software by providing free training, lowering functionality standards and capabilities to knocking-off the low hanging fruit of proprietary software. This is, in turn drying up investment for proprietary software creating a catastrophe for the best people in the industry and damning the users to whatever crap can be pushed out by those who must trade time for money due to their macro economic circumstances.