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Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS?

Posted by timothy on from the ask-him-his-favorite-browser dept.

mark72005 writes "My employer is currently looking at adopting a content management system for use by our technical support staff (primarily first-line end user support, but hopefully it will include deeper levels of support personnel eventually). The candidates are currently Plone (OSS) and Confluence (proprietary, closed-source). For those with experience in each, what arguments in favor of Plone could be made to managers more interested in pragmatism than idealism?"

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  1. Re:It's tougher than you think... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One of the bigger issues in convincing them to adopt FOSS is fear of the GPL. Regardless of misinformation, a lot of people in business fear the GPL because of its stipulations that any released modifications be GPL licensed as well.