"There is a greater need to consider the social benefits of using free and open source software(FOSS) and not just the economic economic advantages, Alan Levine, CIO of Future Perfect told delegates at last week's Second Open Source Software Africa conference in Johannesburg. Levine said that the use of FOSS should not only be evaluated by project, business case or system. He said the traditional total-cost-of-ownership and return-on-investment models cannot take into account all the business implications of using FOSS.
"Levine said that there are ten key areas in which using FOSS contributes not only to the bottom line economically but also to the general good of the entire country..."
