Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Revisiting Open source versus Commercial Software

I was actually reading an earlier post by myself on Open Source versus Commercial software. The example I had taken was interesting. The realization that dawned is that best transportation systems are ones that offer choice.

So, I can take my car from my house, and still hop on a train to reach my office. This is possible because the train station probably offers a "Park and Ride" facility which follows parking standards, so that I can safely leave my car behind. Doing that with software licenses would require standards, where I can switch between one or the other based on convenience or my perceived value for that software.