Bad, Bad Reasons Not to Buy Open-Source Software
When I first saw the list for the eWEEK slide show, Ten Reasons Not to Buy Open Source, I couldn't believe what I was reading. So here are my answers to these "reasons."
Without further adieu, here are my answers to the "reasons" not to buy open-source software.
1) Microsoft is the safe choice
Safe? Safe!?
Come on. Microsoft's products are infamous for not being safe. Vista was supposed to be soooo much more secure than earlier versions of Windows. I said that was nonsense when Vista was first coming out. And what do we now see? Why, this month alone, we see that there are four flaws.
Three of the flaws could let information slip out if users visit malicious pages using IE, and with the fourth vulnerability, all you have to do is view a malicious e-mail with Windows Mail, and ta-da, you've just been hijacked. I hope you enjoy your PC being part of a botnet.
Oh, and if you mean safe, as in "No one was ever fired for buying Microsoft." You may want to reflect on the fact that the saying originally was "No one was ever fired for buying IBM." Things change my friends, even computer software company monopolies.
2) Richer set of application development tools
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