It doesn't matter that it's open source, it matters that you're buying it from someone who is assuming the liability if it's bad. Bad when I worked for the gov

It doesn't matter that it's open source, it matters that you're buying it from someone who is assuming the liability if it's bad. Bad when I worked for the government we bought a lot of Red Hat enterprise licenses not because we wanted the support (it was for a classified machine) but simply because we weren't allowed to use "freeware".