Hudson: Corporate lobbying against free software

"Why does THIS meme belong in a discussion of TCO? Because if you start thinking about it you might start wondering what kind of 'ownership' we're arguing about. After all, it isn't YOU who owns the software. You're merely leasing it from the vendor. The 'ownership' that's going on here is that the vendor owns a bit of you.

So what is the Total Cost of being Owned?"

This is a sweet point. Another angle might be to ask, when you spend what they say for their solution, what you actually own, if anything. And if you don't own the software at this price, how much would it cost to actually own it?

all the best,

drew