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The Institute for Policy Innovation examines the recent decision of the Central Scotland Police to switch from Linux to Microsoft.
[T]he fact is that we're only partway through an experiment on open source. Companies are trying things, abandoning them, trying other things. It's too soon to conclude where open source software ultimately will fit in the overall software industry.
At IPI, we've never been "opposed" to open source software. Skeptical, yes, about the long-term viability of the model apart from a few niche markets, but not opposed. Our point all along has been that open source has yet to really prove itself able to deliver mass-market products. This was the point of our publication in 2004--perhaps the hype of open source has exceeded the reality, and that it is utterly inappropriate to implement policies that demand open source purchasing, or that give favorable treatment to open source solutions Nicely put.
posted by James DeLong @ 9:51 AM | Software
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