“Open source security products do not generally carry the same
following as their business suite and operating system brethren.
However, the same reasons for supporting open source products in
general also apply to open source security applications.“Open source security applications are free, or at least much
less costly than their proprietary counterparts. Even when the cost
of paid support is factored in, they provide much more bang for the
buck…”
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