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A report by the Standish Group indicates that adoption of ‘open source’ has caused a drop in revenue to the proprietary software industry by about $60 billion per year. That’s not a huge amount of money compared to what has been lost though the misselling of mortgages, but it is still a lot. The report identifies the value of these ‘open source’ products to be about 6% of the world market for software. Unfortunately, the Standish Group doesn’t believe in openly sharing its research, instead selling it for $1,000… Read the full story at Freesoftware Magazine
The original report exclaims "open source software cost proper software companies $60 billion a year" but that was a really dumb headline.
Let's clear things up with a better headline, and say instead that "open source software saves business owners $60 billion a year" - now that's more like it!
That $60 billion dollars is a big target for those who sell services related to Free Software...if a client doesn't have to spend $20,000 for their software, spending $5,000 for your services to take care of it is a bargain and they won't hesitate. There is a nice living to be made from supporting Linux and the apps that make it usable.
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Let's clear things up with a better headline, and say instead that "open source software saves business owners $60 billion a year" - now that's more like it!