Are we really wasting $1 trillion dollars a year on proprietary systems?

[ Thanks to Michael Tiemann for this link. ]

"Last year I was invited to submit a paper to the Encyclopedia of Library of Information Science about Open Source Software, and I decided to use that paper as a basis. After editing the paper, updating the links, and downloading lots of new information, I submitted a revised paper that justified the $1T USD number. And because there's been so much interest in this number, I've revised that paper yet again, so you can all read the analysis."

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