Best Practices for using Open-Source Software
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 14:00.
When faced with using open-source software in your company should your first reaction be:
1) Run in terror.
2) Pick up and cuddle your stuffed Steve Ballmer doll while shouting “No!”
3) Refuse to even consider it
4) Deal with it.
Even if you think open source is the dumbest idea to hit IT since Microsoft Bob, number four is your only real choice.
There was a time when SCO and Microsoft could pull the FUD over some people’s eyes and convince them that using open-source software would be leaving your company open to lawsuits or that the only support you’d ever get for your open-source software would be someone who looked like he’d been playing Jesus in a third-rate road show of Godspell. Those days are long gone.


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