[luau] NEWS: OpenSource/Free Software by the numbers
MonMotha
monmotha at indy.rr.com
Sun Apr 21 15:10:31 PDT 2002
Davic Wheeler has released a paper giving quantitative evidence for
free/opensource software.
"This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open
source software / free software is a reasonable or even superior
approach to using their proprietary competition according to various
measures. This paper examines market share, reliability, performance,
scaleability, security, and total cost of ownership. It also has
sections on non-quantitative issues, unnecessary fears, and other sites
providing related information, and ends with some conclusions."
Continued in article:
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
--MonMotha
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