Why Open Source Software

Posted January 9th, 2008 by Jim Klein

This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software (abbreviated as OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS) is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures. This paper’s goal is to show that you should consider using OSS/FS when acquiring software.

http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html