:Free Software Magazine: Every Engineer’s Checklist for Justifying Free Software
Free Software Magazine: Every Engineer’s Checklist for Justifying Free Software Jan 13, 2005, 22 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (8112 reads) (Other stories by Malcolm D. Spence)
"In a few years viewing source code within the major components of software infrastructure will probably be a routine way of doing business. In the meantime it seems that the only reason managers want free software is because it is free (as in free of costs). That’s not a good reason in itself: in the long run there are compelling reasons that robust, mission critical infrastructure software should be made free software.
"For over 5 years, we at OCI have been supporting free software CORBA products. Clients have been using them to build elaborate integrated software systems..."