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Pete Helgren wrote:
The i community is inching toward the open source world but there has been no "embracing" yet. I think that is because the primary focus of the i is business computing, and more specifically mission critical business computing and so the community leans to the more secure side of the fence with fully supported, proprietary systems rather than open source systems. But, I think that is beginning to change.

Pete, given your previous posts regarding open source software (OSS), I presume you don't mean to imply that OSS is less secure (in the computer security sense) than proprietary software. Do you mean that companies can be secure in their decision to use commercial software because it is more familiar, usually comes with a support contract, and in some cases "there is someone to sue" if something goes horribly wrong?

In any case, I agree with Pete that shareware is likely to have difficulty gaining traction, because it doesn't really fit into the familiar initial purchase + maintenance & support mould.

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