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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.
If you don't get it from Red Hat.
"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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You're forgetting that the savings would be immediately put back into executive salaries.
While I can appreciate the appeal of open/free source for IT guys like myself, I can't help but think that some of us push this ideal a bit too far. I currently make a living writing software, as millions of others do, and I'd like to continue making a living for the foreseeable future. Developers need to eat, too. The normal reply to a comment like this is that customers will pay for the support, rather than the software itself. Okay with me, but then how are customers going to save one trillion dollars?
What other industry consists of so many people that argue that the products they develop (or services they provide, if you prefer) should be free? Do doctors or lawyers or engineers ever argue that their service should be free? Construction workers? Accountants? Anyone? We're shooting ourselves in the foot.
hey, I'm just prepping up a response and need to clarify if you were going for strawman or false dichotomy ?
If you think imaginary property and real property are the same, when does your house become public domain?
Normally the windows in the Broken Window Fallacy are glass windows, not Windows OS.
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