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So I can tell my boss we should hire a six figure salary employee instead of buying a four or five figure annual proprietary product? Honestly, as a taxpayer,
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
So I can tell my boss we should hire a six figure salary employee instead of buying a four or five figure annual proprietary product?
Honestly, as a taxpayer, I'd hope not.
And that's the problem, for more open source products, the available support is "pull requests welcome".
- pabs3 6y agoUsually the costs for proprietary software in government are much larger, usually in the millions.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoThis is a very bad assumption. You are ignoring the fact that government includes municipal, county, state, and federal levels of government, and entirely forgetting that most of the software governments use isn't custom-built through super expensive contracts. Many are purpose-built for government use but are sold to a large number of organizations at pretty ordinary pricing models.