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• Wow, $1,000 just to read a report. And I suppose a report about how proprietary software vendors are losing money to open source is full of valuable information a company can use to make that money back right? LOL. Are these reports priced by the same people whom determine the price of the proprietary software that is losing out?
  
  I wonder how well written the report is? i suppose the ultimate test would be if it is written so poorly that someone is actually willing to do the work themselves, releasing it for free, just so they can get a report that actually satisfies their needs. I mean... how bad is your product when someone would rather build from scratch, for free, than use it?
  
  Maybe if proprietary software companies had listened to their users, created stable products with the users people wanted and priced them within reason, oh, say... starting 10 to 15 years ago things would have never progressed this way.
  
  Also... who wants to bet... they are estimating how much OSS is in use and making the assumption that each bit of it represents a piece of expensive software that someone would have purchased had they not had the option to use a better, free program. As if every piece of software in use is one that couldn't be done without. I'd like to know, though not enough to pay $1000. In reply to: "Study Finds "Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion""

  April 21, 2008

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