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Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers!
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"Translations available:
Czech
French
Japanese
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Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!
David A. Wheeler
http://www.dwheeler.com/contactme.html
Revised as of April 16, 2007
This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using
open source software / free software
(abbreviated as OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)
is a reasonable or even superior approach
to using their proprietary competition according to various measures.
This paper’s goal is to show that you should consider using OSS/FS
when acquiring software.
This paper examines
market share ,
reliability ,
performance ,
scalability ,
security , and
total cost of ownership .
It also has sections on
non-quantitative issues ,
unnecessary fears ,
OSS/FS on the desktop ,
usage reports ,
governments and OSS/FS ,
other sites providing related information ,
and ends with some
conclusions .
An appendix gives more background information about
OSS/FS.
You can view this paper at
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html (HTML format).
A short presentation (briefing)
based on this paper is also available.
Palm PDA users may wish to use
Plucker to view this longer report.
Old archived copies and a list
of changes are
also available.
1. Introduction
Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)
(also abbreviated as FLOSS or FOSS)
has risen to great prominence.
Briefly, OSS/FS programs are programs whose licenses give
users the freedom to run the program for any purpose,
to study and modify the program, and to redistribute copies of
either the original or modified program (without having to pay
royalties to previous developers).
The goal of this paper is to convince you
to consider using OSS/FS when you’re looking
for software, using quantitive measures.
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