I’m always amazed at how many decision makers weasel out of a good deal because of prejudices and blindness.
I can understand the cases where a vendor had upset them in the past and they won’t deal with them again, but I don’t understand the prejudice against “Free Software”. Once upon a time all software was “free”. The hardware vendors gave it away in order to sell the software. In fact at the Seneca FSOSS Symposium, Brian Down, Chief technologist at Sun Canada, outlined Sun’s forthcoming approach to “Monetizing Open Source at Sun“, and it seemed remarkable like this. The video of his presentation is here.
