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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. And you can save even more by ClosedSource · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you don't get it from Red Hat.

  2. Re:or how to... by lordofthechia · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Suddenly pulling a trillion dollars out of the economy would have a pretty severe effect."

    Since companies would take the Trillion dollars they save and throw them into a furnace to heat their buildings...

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  3. From TFA by mcgrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    I got a chuckle from this gem:

    The reality of the situation was that we couldn't find any names that were not previously registered. When I lamented this fact to a couple of my Net friends, one of them searched the dictionary for words that contained "GNU". And "Cygnus" seemed the one that was least obscene

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  4. Re:Uhh, Who's Gonna Pay?!? by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mark Shuttleworth?

  5. Re:or how to... by Rhaban · · Score: 4, Funny

    And, the heat generated by the burnig of this trillion will accelerate global warming. Open source is bad for the planet.