On 10/18/09 14:38, Warp wrote:
>> Not true if time itself is money. I.e. you may "lose" some by wasting
>> hours/days/weeks on OSS software that doesn't end up working.
>
>    How much more do you lose by having to pay software licenses?
>
>    You can't claim that trying an OSS for a few days costs more than eg.
> buying a Windows license for 10 servers, for instance.

	I can somewhat sympathize with his viewpoint. Sometimes the cost of 
using OSS isn't apparent after merely a few days. It could be months 
after it's been adopted. Usually fixing the problems requires one of 
your employees to spend time working on fixing it. And sometimes the 
cumulative time spent on such "fixes" is more than if they had just paid 
for reliable support (which many OSS projects don't offer). Employee 
time is expensive (in terms of money).

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