[OGo-Documentation] Book review of Open Groupware

[Olivier Hallot]

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Adam Williams escreveu:
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> Also your "Financial Incentives" charts should include at least a
> footnote indicating that these numbers are based on retail prices -
> organizations of any significant size can purchase site/seat licenses of
> products like M$-Office for FAR FAR FAR LESS than street retail price.
> Exaggerating the *immediate* price savings of Open Source software makes
> it child's play for a competing pro-proprietary consultant to trash the
> integrity of your document.  It is hard for me even to recount the
> number of times I've watched a site lost by an over-eager advocate.
Indeed.
It is better to put the price tag as the last benefit of all
OpenSource choice. Several reasons for that especially if a
proprietary software house tags it's price near to zero, and you will
not be  compelled to go Opensource.

The debate of FOSS vs Proprietary is a debate of where each of the
avaliable solution fits in the business rather than best price, since
most of the benefits of each type of software is on the ROI of your
investment rather that the immediate spending. One of my best is the
fact that you don't have to control EULAs, and are no more subject to
audits.

See... in some countries, the piracy of well establhished propritary
software is the toughest competition to all open-source,
"free-as-in-beer" offering. Not surprising that famous hipocrite
software makers claims losses from piracy but welcome it to gain
market share (as well as mind share). Once you are caught into the
proprietary culture and get business succe$$, you get a visit from the
local BSA. It happens countless times here.

Olivier

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