Here is a bunch of other great articles on the issue. If you are interested, you should read them all. Cooper, I hope you found all these and the many more out there, and I would guess that your summary is more up-to-date that these (most are 1999-2002)...
Shucks, google *is* my friend: http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/case_for_business.php http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/20/011220hnmickos.xml http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,s2107509,00.html http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-871366.html http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/core.html http://www.plainblack.com/open_source http://www.apdip.net/iosn/whyos.asp http://www.madfishgroup.com/why.php http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=343 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/04/13/CFPkeynote.html http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/09/17/why_open_source_dbs.html http://www.localharvest.org/opensource.jsp http://www.ofbiz.org/whyopensource.html http://www.vorstrasse91.com/moztips/openworks/ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/06/28/vendor.html and one non-html: http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/rp-bonaccorsirossi.pdf enjoy the links! Some are domain-specific (schools, GIS) but still offer important points that some general-domain arguments miss... shanti Ben B On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:06:10 -0700 Kent Loobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6989 _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
