Posts Tagged with ‘myths’

With all the discussion of Twitter clones, the idea that Open Source software is some sort of magic bullet that will achieve scalability and free users from some concept of tyranny that results in application outages. There's obviously a huge misunderstanding about what Open Source really means, so here are six myths about Open Source:
1. Open Source means free.
Just because there's no charge for the code itself, that doesn't mean that an Open Source application comes without hidden charges. You [...]