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>>> Or why to pay let alone the license for services and software that is enterprise ready and for free in Free Software Land Roughly speaking, all software ar
by user5994461 9y ago
>>> Or why to pay let alone the license for services and software that is enterprise ready and for free in Free Software Land
Roughly speaking, all software are free.
The bulk of the money goes to pay the developers and the sysadmins around the software, not the software itself.
- nafey 9y agoI have had the impression that this statement is not true for enterprise software.
- kod 9y agoIt's definitely not true for enterprise software, which can quickly get in to licensing fees measured in number of equivalent yearly developer salaries.
- user5994461 9y agoThe statement is true for most enterprise software. That's the point! Even in that category, there aren't that many software that charge in the millions of dollars per year (i.e. multiple developer salaries) and when they do they tend to require a sizable workforce (i.e. many developers and operations).