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When and how can Free Software really save public money?
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| A few days ago, during an email conversation
| about efficient public services and waste of
| money in Public Administrations, I had to
| answer a couple of questions. Since those
| answers may interest many other people, here
| they are.
|
| (note for newcomers: the "Free Software"
| discussed here is software like Ubuntu (a
| distribution of Linux) or OpenOffice: software
| that can be legally copied and installed
| without license costs, supported by
| politicians of all parties, even in the
| European Union)
|
| First question: in my opinion, people
| saying that Free Software saves money
| overlooks the fact that those who use it
| on their job, for example a public
| employee, may need some training to use
| all its features. If you consider this,
| Free Software saves money only in the long
| run, doesn't it?
|
| Of course, in medium and big organizations,
| the costs of software licenses are only a
| small part of the total costs of using and
| maintaining that same software (even if, only
| in Italy, the total amount of software
| licensing costs in local and national PAs is
| hundreds millions of Euros every year), but
| let's look at the whole picture. If you only
| consider the cost of software licenses, it's
| easy: Free Software wins.
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/99
Open World Forum 2010: Call for Proposals
http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/02/16/open-world-forum-2010-call-for-proposals/
Recent:
Open source means cost savings
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| Weâve just published our latest CAOS special
| report, âClimate Change -User perspectives on
| the impact of economic conditions on open
| source software adoption.â The report is based
| on our recent survey findings among more than
| 1,700 open source software customers and users,
| and also offers guidance on calculating cost
| savings from open source software.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/12/14/open-source-means-cost-savings/
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