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The wrong reason to choose open source
September 23, 2007 (8:00:00 PM) - 2 years, 2 months ago
"I see it time and time again in comparisons of software products where one or more of the options is open source. Someone chimes in with a comment along the lines of: 'Why pay for product X when I can get open source Y for free?'
My response to this is simple: X != Y. Price is a very primitive way to choose software. Differences in price, even when one price is zero, are often insignificant when compared to other factors...."
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