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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:or how to... by Sandbags · · Score: 0, Troll

    so, then, you're still not convinced trickly down economoics was a flop?

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  2. Re:Broken Window Fallacy by Mitchell314 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, but at least glass windows are normally functional.

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