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Story: Specsavers sees clear benefits in open source
I dont think there is a need to adopt such an agressive tone!
FIRSTLY- I did read the article
SECONDLY - I was not implying anything about Specsavers policies which I am sure are excellent from what I read
THIRDLY - I am talking of situations that do exist where organisations simply look at license cost - eg £10,000 or FREE and do NOT look beyond that to see if they need to change working practices or think about their IT infrastructure as well.
LASTLY - I am a strong supporter of open source not, as you appear to be, from an idealogical standpoint - but because (as I said) it gives much greater flexibility. With it you can tailor software more closely to the needs of the organisation or business, at the same time delivering innovation and change back to the open source community. However you will not achieve this if all you do is just load the software and treat it like something you have purchased - it requires investment - just in different directions. The best example I can think of is the Open University who invested several million pounds in their move to Moodle an open source learning system.
Maybe I didnt express myself well or maybe you missed my point (since you almost paraphrase one of them) All I am saying is that cost of a license is about the last reason you should consider for moving to open source - removing that however does not imply that there are not compelling reasons for doing so.
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