Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> Why do anyone need to use something closed and proprietary when there >> is >> open product available ? >> (Opensolaris and distributions) >> > I don't know. Why does anyone pay for redhat? Why does anyone pay for > windows? Why does anyone pay for MS Office, or Adobe Acrobat, or any other > commercial software? > > Every one of them has a free alternative. Why pay? > > Because the products are not the same. You pay for the commercial one, if > the commercial one is the one you need. > What makes you think that Open source products are not commercial? Free software is a little bit more then being "free to use". More like "I could know what code is inside that binary blob I am running every day". As opposite to "use binary and depend only on one company/provider for everything" Usually It is never free to operate, since one needs staff, support and man work, etc.
People can and are willing to pay for support of open source products. On the other hand, i am totally unwilling to pay support for any closed source product, because that is ,like, shooting yourself in the foot these days. With so many open source OS`es, products and technologies available. > Specifically in the case of sol10 vs osol, you pay for support, because your > server is important to the productivity of the company. The $400/yr for > support is nothing compared to the salaries of all the employees. If you > save even 1 minute throughout the year, or reduce risk to the company's > assets, data, or employee productivity, then it's more costly to *not* have > support. > All you say is true in both cases: Open and Closed. I would like to inspire people to pay support for OpenSolaris instead of Solaris. I do not care about closed Solaris at all. But my question is, again: Why on earth would I pay support for closed product, when i have open product. (to pay support to)? Further in this thread there is multiple people talking, how open source OS`es or/and based on free software, are actually better with real support in general. (With and without contract) Like you can better use manpower you have inside a company, your knowledge can have a timely (or instant) effect on your usage, providing you equpped yourself with ability to make your own binaries of code that it hurting you, before waiting for someone else to do that. As someone said, With closed source products you have to wait much longer, always need to be subscribe to service and again wait for only one party to see your problem as valid enough for all of the customers fo be fixed. With closed product, you can not apply fix buy yourself neither you can share that fix with other, collaborate and actually put a _smaller pressure to a Support subscription service_ you are paying. At the end, you need support for OpenSolaris and that is what will give you newer technology, and make maintainers who you are paying to fix problems that might arise during period when you use product, more cost-effective for you and others. Support for Solaris is costly because only small number of people can fix it, and make it available to others. OpenSolaris support just gives more bang for a buck on every front. Open VS Closed; Free(dom) VS Proprietary; Independent and associated VS Dependent on one company; Active and included VS Passive and isolated. OpenSolaris VS Solaris. Choose yourself. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
