Arguments for Open Source

Submitted by rernst on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 8:37am

Intelligent Designs has an excellent writeup of the arguments for using open source in wikipedia.

Most of the standard reasons are covered: lower cost, more customizable, more secure, not having to worry about vendor lock-in or vendor abandonment. It's a good discussion: I'd never thought about it in this way before.

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