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April 16, 2008 10:11 AM PDT
The Standish Group (Who's that?) is reporting that open source is robbing those poor, starving proprietary software companies of $60 billion in revenue each year. From the report:
Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software companies.
It took me a few minutes to dry my eyes and control my emotions long enough to say,
I hope so. But I doubt it.
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