Yes, I want open source software for free.
The highway is paid with taxes, toll roads are not free, and I choose to not travel the toll road route.
I develop software, some of which is free, and I sell support for my free stuff. What I develop for a company always needs some tailoring. For example, a manufacturer of glass food containers and a manufacturer of plastic bottles serve similar markets, but their warehousing, supply chain and manufacturing and distributions are sufficiently different that one product needs tweaking to meet the two different business requirements.
The manufacturer is not in the software business, his goal is to maximize his profits, improve his quality, and minimize his costs and maximize his marketing efforts. So, he will buy support for that open-source software, because he does not require a full time staff.
Often he will just subscribe to a cloud provider until his business requires in-house installations.
Telecommunications is changing the way business and software is being done. Do we actually need a MS product if we can work from the web?
