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Story: Bursting the proprietary-software bubble

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Production and distribution are not the same

Interesting article, althought the author seems to confuse production with distribution. In fact, it takes an enormous bit of time to code new software. Once that's over and the revisions are set -- usually at the end of the 2.0 version -- only bug fixes and incremental improvements are often added. But time is money at the beginning, so producing the code costs someone something, even if it's many "someones" contributing to a FOSS project. Distribution costs only the server space for hosting.

As the author notes, over the long haul open source software is far better equipped to deal with any economy, not to mention other distinct advantages, such as faster bug fixes. Whether its GNU/Linux or OpenOffice or MySQL, the user wins.

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