You sometimes have to deal with bad apples in your staff, or with customers who won't pay. You may be able to sniff them out early. How do you do this with IT? How do you “nip” issues before they occur and costs before they are incurred? How do you do Lean IT?
Why does traditional software seem so needlessly complicated when Web-based, cloud and mobile alternatives seem so much simpler?
What will free us from the DLL hell and make the computer simple again?
In case you cannot fully fathom the pertinence of my defense of Open Source technology, try one with numbers... How much did IBM® spend to acquire RedHat®, the company that maintains the Linux distribution* of the same name? $340M, $3.4B, or $34B?
Technology can allow people much freedom. But what is the true price of this freedom? Hard work, maybe?
Everything good in life requires hard work. Think!