Open SOurce Vs Commercial Software

dai · 07-06-2003, 11:38 AM

Hi all can somebody point me in the direction of a whitepaper that discusses the merits of Open SOurce and Commercial Software please.

I know there is quite a famous paper that was written a few years back that discusses possible good and bad points etc of Open Source and Commercial software but I cant find it anywhere.

Many Thanks

Mara · 07-06-2003, 04:35 PM

Maybe you're searching for this one: http://dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html ?

dai · 07-06-2003, 05:03 PM

cheers Mara

that is the exact paper that I just found about 5 minutes ago, and I cant find anything else at the minute.

Needed a reliable paper to use for reference in my MSc dissertation on Linux Security (Im currently discussing the merits and problems of Open Source). So again thanks.

fishsponge · 05-01-2004, 12:38 PM

any update on this old thread by any chance?? i could kinda do with a few white papers now... there's loads of articles about this on the web, but referencing web sites is apparently a bad thing, lol

clarks · 05-01-2004, 02:05 PM

Try here:
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/

fishsponge · 05-01-2004, 03:46 PM

thanks for the link... it's a very good paper

is it the "famous" one talked about above though??

trickykid · 05-01-2004, 04:11 PM

Moved: More suitable in General.