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How To Save $1 Trillion a Year With Open Source
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.
"I shouldn't have to give my work away for free!" is a backwards argument. Nobody asked you to give *your* work away for free or even at non-monetary cost like so much of the FOSS community.
The fact that you now have to compete with people whose products compete on functionality or quality and all have the same zero-money pricing isn't anybody's problem but yours.
so, then, you're still not convinced trickly down economoics was a flop?
There is no contest in life for which the unprepared have the advantage.
Yes, but at least glass windows are normally functional.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Unlike Linux, aka 'Open Source' Windows better targets the everyman. The fans of open source love to laud how customizable an open source platform is and the fact that it is free or at least cheap. They forget two things, nothing is free, and you get what you pay for. Without blabbing on an on about the true cost of Linux you can just break it down to simple math. Windows 7 Pro will cost you $300 if you save a little less than 18 minutes a week not adjusting to Linux, not doing command line garbage, and not figuring out just what you have to do to install one particular piece of software the one of many versions of Linux your IT guy chose for the company Windows just paid for itself within a year*. *Assuming a $20/hr employee and 52 weeks