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Free Software Magazine: Every Engineer�s Checklist for Justifying Free Software

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“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…”


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