Timeline for Microsoft or Open Source? [closed]
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 16:42 | comment | added | gnat | see Gorilla vs. Shark -- "if you... don't want your question to get instantly closed... - try to keep Gorilla vs. Shark in mind." | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 9:19 | comment | added | Roy T. | Sometimes Microsoft just has the better product (for example, it's hard to dispute that MS Office is better than Open Office). Sometimes open-source software is better. (GIT vs TFS). | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 7:25 | comment | added | JacquesB | Companies does not choose between "Microsoft" and "open source", they choose between actual product like Microsoft Office and Libre Office. The price tag certainly makes a difference, but there are also other important considerations like compatibility, the quality of the products, cost of retraining personnel and so on. Same issue when say designers are choosing between Adobe Photoshop and Gimp. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 6:01 | history | closed |
whatsisname Basile Starynkevitch Doc Brown 9000 Kilian Foth |
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 5:40 | answer | added | Martin Maat | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 5:19 | comment | added | RibaldEddie | For the record, open source is being embraced by pretty much everyone these days. Even MSFT is open sourced various parts of the .NET runtime. So it's hard to figure out what you're really asking on this site. Surely your question on a site for programmers is not about choosing to use Excel in the marketing department. If this is about tools, or programming languages, or platforms, most companies these days probably choose something other than MSFT. Java is open source. Companies choose that all the time. I think the question is based on a false premise. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 5:15 | comment | added | whatsisname | For the OP: look up the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". Same ideas. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 4:53 | answer | added | Kyle A | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 4:16 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 4:06 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | Support is an even bigger one. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 4:06 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | @whatsisname One where I've used lots of open source software that doesn't quite do what you want, and lots of commercial software that does (usually because our company paid them to make it do what we want)? | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 4:03 | answer | added | Samuel | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 4:03 | comment | added | whatsisname | @immibis: what planet do you live on? Clearly not Earth. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 4:01 | answer | added | RibaldEddie | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 3:42 | history | asked | Albedo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |