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Informal poll: what are the biggest myths about open source software?

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It's free

It's not supported

It's not secure

It's ideological

It's viral

It produces better quality code

It's developed by amateurs

It eradicates vendor lock-in

It's not for mission critical apps

It's hard to make money

It lowers costs

Swine flu

Susan Boyle

Other:

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3 Comments

If you answer "other" please explain with a comment.

Posted by Matt Aslett on April 28th 2009, 1:50pm

"It's not secure" comes up quite a lot at the office. I've been trying to get the company to move to (and develop inside) an open source CMS. Frustratingly, this argument comes up - and it's quite a difficult objection to overcome.

Posted by Crunch on May 14th 2009, 3:50pm

Without question its Susan Boyle! No?

Posted by Tom Nash on January 24th 2010, 2:39pm

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