2009/12/4 Karsten Gerloff <[email protected]>: > One important point to go for is strategic independence. With Free > Software, the organisation is independent from upgrade cycles, and > can upgrade its software whenever it feels like doing so, rather > than when the vendor phases out support.
+1 I'm a Unix sysadmin in a commercial organisation, and every time we have to talk to our proprietary vendor we desperately wish we'd gone with something open source and/or in-house bespoke. And they're a *pretty nice* vendor, responsive and helpful and the product is good. But they remain the only place we can get help for on this opaque black box they've sold us. My new saying: Software freedom is like backups, redundancy and service contracts ... you don't realise how much you need them until you don't have them. - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
