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You can't (always) afford free software

1 pointsby bbrennanover 4 years ago

2 comments

detaroover 4 years ago
Oh boy, title starts with "Open Source vs Commercial", and then the article entirely talks about paying for hosting/support/... or not, as if that's the same thing...
alpaca128over 4 years ago
Note that this is about free software as in &quot;free beer&quot;. The original title of the article is clearer in that regard.<p>That said the article is mostly the old &quot;OSS is only free if you don&#x27;t value your time&quot; mixed with a couple weird assumptions; for example that free OSS and paid (support) services exclude each other.