In many situations, that is unrealistic. Somebody has to pay for me (or some other engineer) to set up and maintain said open source. It is often cheaper to jus

In many situations, that is unrealistic. Somebody has to pay for me (or some other engineer) to set up and maintain said open source. It is often cheaper to just pay for the offering. There is business risk in being trapped in non-free, but sometimes that is still the prudent option. I like open source -- mostly because it can be debugged! -- but it's not the solution to every problem.