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RE: And so it continues...

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Joe Pluta wrote:

I never said Open Source is at fault. It's the misconception that Open
Source is somehow free that causes problems. Non-technical C-level
executives get the idea that this stuff can be plucked out of the air (or
more precisely, off the Internet) and slapped onto a cheap server and BOOM
you have an infrastructure. That's of course ridiculous.

Remembering that Free Software is free as in freedom and not necessarily free as in price would help here. Perhaps those executives you mention are making precisely that mistake?

Another way to look at the freedoms in Free Software is embodied in my sig...

James Rich

It's not the software that's free; it's you.
- billyskank on Groklaw

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