How to overcome hidden barriers to open source adoption
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A recent Future of Open Source Survey [7] found that 72 percent of respondents use open source software because they believe it provides better security than proprietary alternatives, and 80 percent believe it offers better quality than proprietary software. And 99% of that software is most likely the Chrome engine or Firefox. The remaining 1% is probably the entire remaining landscape of open source apps & OS's. Marc
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A recent Future of Open Source Survey [7] found that 72 percent of respondents use open source software because they believe it provides better security than proprietary alternatives, and 80 percent believe it offers better quality than proprietary software. And 99% of that software is most likely the Chrome engine or Firefox. The remaining 1% is probably the entire remaining landscape of open source apps & OS's. Marc
I was at a one time, a Windows-centric developer, purchased tools (mostly Microsoft) and despised open source...fast forward 10 years. My entire tool chain, development environment, IDE and soon operating system (Ubuntu is hard to beat -- it's what Google uses) are all open source, of the GPL variety. I assure you that open source proponents, pundits, evangelists, whatever you want to call us, use more than just Chrome -- unless I misunderstood your remark. :) OSS is the future of everything outside of the bubble known to many as Microsoft. PHP is one example of open source success, which Drupal, WordPress, Joomla (and about 1000 others) are built on. Combined, these CMS frameworks power something to the effect of 30% or more of web sites. Apache still holds like 60% market share in HTTP hosting... I am proud to say, closed source, proprietary software is a receding practice...open source will eventually win out. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, or next year or next decade, but mark my words, it's going the way of the dinosaur... p.s-The numbers or stats I provided were ball parked or quickly Googled... Consider Windows developers defect to Linux and open source...but I have yet to meet an open source Linux guy make the reverse decision. :p Regards, Alex