Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 11th Dec 2005 19:25 UTC
Free software advocates focus on the ability to share, develop, and improve software as a community effort. But how do these freedoms affect the business community? David Chisnall takes a look.
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1) I know of no independent TCO studies showing any such thing.
Come with links. So far all studies showing higher TCO cost for linux-based systems have been based on a specific GNU/Linux-distribution or have been funded by Microsoft.
Microsofts Get The "Facts" campain has been proven as FUD several times.
I challenge you to bring evidence for independent studies. Not just claiming them as independent but actualle evidence for them being independent.
2) Microsoft is convicted for criminal behaviour in the sense that Microsoft actually broke the law. Whether the punishment is economical or prison doesn't matter. It's still a criminal action.
3) Links to FLOSS non-company marketing campains which aren't objective? True, Redhat is not objective in their campain for RHEL. But linux users generally are objective (at least those I know of or have met - fanboys however must be expected to be pretty blind - unfortunately).
4) Free Software IS free. It gives me the Four Freedoms. Proprietary software does not grant me such rights. And DO NOT EVER AGAIN confuse commercial with proprietary. Free Software is NOT about the Price but about the Freedom. GPL can be every bit as commercial as proprietary software can be, and proprietary software can be _gratis_ as GPL'ed software also can be.
No matter whether you use proprietary software or any other kind of software you will always have to pay for the investment of your own time and effort.
However, with most binary based linux distributions, you have to invest less time and less money than with Windows (unless you are a Windows Power User and messes with things you don't understand anyway because you're not used to source code access or CLI).