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Open Source is Expensive

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Network World; By Stephen Spector
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This week’s blog post relates to an area we often dismiss with open source software, money. In fact, the most common thought on money and open source is “hey, it’s free and works.” The reality is of course more complicated and I argue that open source is very expensive for the organizations running a project and sometimes they might not even consider all the costs when considering a new open source project. For this discussion, I am not referring to open source projects run by individuals, but large-scale solutions run by public companies or foundations.

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