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MarketWatch: The Software Police and Your Company

[ Thanks to Ron Loftin
for this link. ]

“Years ago the big software companies dreamed up something
called the TCO or total cost of ownership.

“They then pushed numbers around to somehow show (and I’m still
flabbergasted by this) that buying software from Microsoft and
other big companies was cheaper than using free software available
from Open Source vendors.

“Man, these are some amazing bookkeepers…!”


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