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Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source
Martyr4BK writes "BusinessWeek has a slew of special reports today on open source software discussing the benefits for buyers who are cost conscious and open source being the silver lining for the economic slump. They even have a slideshow of 'OSS alternatives' like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox, Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk. These are all good examples (we use a bunch of them already); what other open source software can I use to drop my company's IT costs, and maybe get a decent bonus for the year?"
I hope your risk assessment includes that if any open source libraries makes it into your software products, your company is dead and everyone is out the door. This because the goal is not money but the removal of proprietary software.
The irony is that you and every other poster here on slashdot are misinterpreting this article for what it really is, the death knell of programmers world wide! That's right. Soon, no programmer will make any money off of anything ever!!! We will all become slaves to a master race of heartless penguins!!!
It's their retaliation for human-caused global warming! Anyone who knows how to code will be whipped and beaten mercilessly in the FOSS mines, working day and night to bring free as in beer and free as in speech software to the end-user! Not only that, but every project will be forced to be user-friendly point and click interface!!! Need to change from .avi to .ogg using ffmpeg? It will take a hundred clicks!!! Bash will be replaced with a maze of mouse-driven gestures and patterns!!! Zork will be unplayable!!!
And unfortunately, my fellow programmers, that is just the beginning. Soon after, we will see every distro become amalgamated into Idiotbuntu, Linux for idiots! So, fear the penguins!!!
And shower. FoCr