“Open source software selection costs are high, as results also
from COSPA’s findings: up to 40% of migrations’ support costs,
considering both searching for software and searching for
documentation costs.“Finding and Selecting open source software is often an
underestimate task. Only SourceForge guests about 150.000 different
open source projects, and about 18.000 open source projects are
mature and stable: eating fish from the open source sea is safe as
long as they are not eaten raw…”
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