Am 01.04.2015 um 13:04 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch:
IMHO the larger the corporation is, the less are the chances for *long-term* benefits of the OSS/free software (mainly because: usually commercial success is driven and defined from marketing to sales[1] sown to the techies which are forced into "features" and "delivery dates" to achieve some "company defined goal" - and that is usually not "bug free", "safe", or the like. Free software/OSS just happens that *at least* half of it should come from the "working level" and that is - at least - much more - ahemm - "inconvenient" for sales people)
that is simple not true - if it would be true linux distributions would not include half baken and aplha quality sofwtare again and again in stable releases because "the market out there"
the *possible* long-term benefits are more time to invest because a fixed income