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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. Good news or bad ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know. Sonds bad !!

    1. Re:Good news or bad ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Your grammar also sounds bad.

  2. Functionality supposed to spring from the ether by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No it will flow from Gaia's infinite tits, just like the funding for SS, Medicare, and whatever underwater entitlements come next.