Creating Wealth With Free Software

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 08/08/2008 - 11:00

Free Software Magazine: "A report by the Standish Group indicates that adoption of ‘open source' has caused a drop in revenue to the proprietary software industry by about $60 billion per year.

That's not a huge amount of money compared to what has been lost though the misselling of mortgages, but it is still a lot."


 

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