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The News.com Lounge: huh? Ganging up in Microsoft?? More like

by JCPayne - 4/14/08 6:53 PM
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huh? Ganging up in Microsoft?? More like

by JCPayne - 4/14/08 6:53 PM

all these companies are finally avoiding what doesn't work.

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Cost is always a factor

by welrdelr - 4/18/08 5:38 PM In reply to: huh? Ganging up in Microsoft?? More like by JCPayne

Using open source and non restrictive license saves on development, allows updates and modifications, and allows the company to release both a professional and community product- of which the latter brings in a few more clients.

Stability and testing: Limiting the code base to only a few or charging a large amount for it does not allow your product to be improved.

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