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May 13 2009 12:56PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Open source, open source textbooks, cost of open source
Open source - When free is really not free
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Open source, open source textbooks, cost of open source
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“It might look cheaper on paper, but if you look at what you want to do with it and it requires a substantial engineering effort rather than a commercial product, then it’s not necessarily the most effective solution.”
Adam Honoré, as quoted in Wall Street Opens Doors to Open Source Technologies |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is open source. Open source describes a software program whose source code is made freely available for use or modification.
The poor economic climate has given the open source movement a boost as budget cuts force IT departments to look around for the most cost-effective way to get projects done. You might think that “freely available” is the same thing as “free” — but most of us don’t know how to use that free code. We’d either end up paying a distributor like Red Hat to help us out — or we’d need to keep people in house that can work with the source code. Either way, we’d be shelling out money.
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