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How To Save $1 Trillion a Year With Open Source

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-kicking-after-all-these-years dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Cygnus founder Michael Tiemann estimates IT customers globally could save a trillion a year with open source or free source software." Not that a guy with a title like "VP of Open Source Affairs" at Red Hat would have a reason to be biased, but it's an interesting little read about a guy who's been doing this longer than you. Well, most of you anyway.

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  1. Re:Dubious figures by mister_playboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It seemed to me the same sort of logic that the RIAA uses... piracy=lost sales being the analog.

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  2. Re:In other words by petrus4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How to pull 1 trillion dollars from businesses hiring developers.

    It's nice to see good and responsible promotion of FOSS.

    The part that's truly amusing, is that this effect is almost entirely due to the efforts of Comrade Stallman.

    He wanted a license to reduce the amount of money circulating where software development was concerned. It might be true that less money is going in the direction of programmers, but the corporations are doing just fine. The fact that FOSS gives them the ability to outsource, actually means that they're saving money by being able to keep Asian programmers in sweatshops.