BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source's Economic Advantage

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @06:25AM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

jrepin writes "The fundamental premise of the latest Software Alliance study — that licensed, proprietary software is better in many ways than pirated copies — actually applies to open source software even more strongly, with the added virtues that the software is free to try, to use and to modify. That means the potential economic impact of free software is also even greater than that offered by both licensed and unlicensed proprietary software. It's yet another reason for governments around the world to promote the use of open source in their countries by everyone at every level."

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Re:Post Facto Economic Impact -- Not Productivity by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-28 09:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ok, I'll bite. Since early 2000s I've given OO a chance every now and than. Every single time it fails to do what I need it to do, and I just have to bite the bullet and give up.
People need their software to WORK. Like Firefox. Heck, even Thunderbird manages to get "most" of it right.
OO is just so bad it's not even funny. Everything takes 10x times slower, and then you find out it doesn't scale or doesn't work for like 50% of what you need it for.
Any program can accept a simple rich text field and clone some functionality. You've got to set your standards higher.