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:The Convenience of Proprietary Software (From a Purchasing Angle)
The Convenience of Proprietary Software (From a Purchasing Angle)
May 17, 2008, 08 :00 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (2818 reads)

(Other stories by Matt Asay)

"One of the things that we open sourcerors need to figure out--or which the market needs to figure out--is the convenience of purchasing proprietary software. By this I don't mean any particular vendor's policies: I'm talking about the basic act of buying something that masquerades as property.

"For better or (in my view) for worse, the industry knows how to buy proprietary software. Increasingly, thanks to the pull of Red Hat and Salesforce.com, it's getting used to subscription-based pricing, too..."

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I think that synaptic package manager is ...   Totally don't know what they mean by convenien   
Jimmy the Geek
May 17, 2008, 08:48:13
 
...I think that synaptic package manager ...   re: Totally don't know what they mean ...   
Brandioch Conner
May 18, 2008, 01:57:13
 
> No. Incorrect. YOU do not do a good jo ...   Re: re: Totally don't know what they mean ...   
Rainer Weikusat
May 18, 2008, 14:22:24
 
they are ignorant "consumers" manufactur ...   ignorance   
anonymous
May 18, 2008, 16:14:23
 
...Why would a company buy OTS-software  ...   re: Re: re: Totally don't know what   
Brandioch Conner
May 18, 2008, 20:40:24
 
> ...Why would a company buy OTS-softwar ...   Re: re: Re: re: Totally don't know what   
Rainer Weikusat
May 18, 2008, 22:10:31
 
...The time needed to train an in-house  ...   re: Re: re: Re: re: Totally don't know what   
Brandioch Conner
May 19, 2008, 04:51:34
 
> ...The time needed to train an in-hous ...   Re: re: Re: re: Re: re: Totally don't know wha   
Rainer Weikusat
May 19, 2008, 14:13:22
 
...If the 'in house expert' does ...   re: Re: re: Re: re: Re: re:   
Brandioch Conner
May 19, 2008, 15:16:44
 
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