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Open Source: many advantages beyond price!

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Tech-no-media; By Eric Van Haesendonck 		Mail this story
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When people think about adopting an Open Source solution, the first factor that comes to mind is the price: it is usually cheaper than proprietary alternatives. What a lot of people fail to consider is that there are a lot of other advantages to Open Source that can be much more important than the price factor. Let's have a look at a few of them...

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caitlyn ·
Many of us have made these same points for a decade or more. Business has been really slow on the uptake and is still distrustful of FOSS. They don't understand it and are more comfortable with a proprietary model. The economic crisis/recession/depression/whatever this is has helped matters some, but mostly because of price, not because business understands all the benefits.

Don't get me wrong, this is a very good article and these points need to be repeated until they sink in.

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