The Price of Open Source Software
Published at January 29, 2019 · 1 min read
Open source software is not free. Sometimes it’s not cheap at all. It even could be more expensive than some proprietary software with any high price.
I like Open Source. I use it. I contribute to some open source project even on my personal time. But you must know, that price for the open source software could be very high.
You always need to think about how many time do you spend during troubleshooting/deploying/fixing or improving some open source software. It could take a lot of time for it. Sometimes it’s better and cheaper than open source.
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