Lost jobs due to open source

[Paul Harper]

The Success of Open Source book by Steve Weber might
be useful for you.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674012925/qid=1124733745/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5697072-8032900?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Good review here:

http://www.gbn.com/BookClubSelectionDisplayServlet.srv?si=25716

--- Ruben Vermeersch <ruben at Lambda1.be> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> As you're all better at advocating the whole idea,
> I'd figured I might
> as well ask you guys for ideas. I'm a CS student,
> mostly doing
> programming, not active advocating, however, I do
> try to convince my
> classmates of the wonders and ideas of open source
> and free software.
> 
> I managed to get the following ideas out of their
> heads: 
>  * open source software has low quality and doesn't
> work
> 	-> it does! Look at my shiny Ubuntu laptop, apache,
> ....
>  * sharing code is bad, as other companies will
> steal it
> 	-> read the GPL
> 
> Their latest counter-argument is a more economically
> minded one:
> 
> "You can't live of open source, you can't make money
> of it" (a classic),
> but also a more sophisticated one: "If we all do
> open source software, a
> lot of jobs will get cut, the amount of IT staff
> with a job will
> decrease dramatically".
> 
> Anyone has some good pointers in how to quickly
> convince them otherwise
> (without the risk of sounding like a zealot, plain
> rational arguments).
> 
> Thanks in advance, and keep building the magic!
> 
> Ruben
> 
> 
> --
> Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
> http://www.Lambda1.be/
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> 
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