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 decades of accumulated complexity and make the computer simple again?
In case you cannot fully fathom the pertinence of our defense of Open Source technology, try one with numbers... If every piece of Open Source software vanished overnight, what would the world's companies have to spend to rebuild the code their businesses already run on? $88B, $880B, or $8.8T?
Technology can allow people much freedom. But what is the true price of this freedom? Hard work, maybe?
