> and FOSS or not FOSS is irrelevant. I don’t think this is universally applicable. I think you can differentiate software by how important it is. Some softwa

> and FOSS or not FOSS is irrelevant. I don’t think this is universally applicable. I think you can differentiate software by how important it is. Some software is at the very core of your business. A CAD, a ECAD, some lab software or a video editing program. Realistically, if you cannot justify the expensive of that software for your business, you probably don’t have a business. Many of those apps require substantial R&D to get right, something you can only afford if you make real money by building it. But there are other supporting applications that are not as close to your value add as your core apps, but they can still sleep you over real bad if the vendor goes bust or raises prices into the sky. That may be a teams chat app, a mail client, a wiki software. Most of those apps are essentially the infrastructure of any business nowadays and are relatively solved problems. In this area OSS really shines and reduces a lot of the vendor risk.