Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (Linus's Law): Empirically, open source tends to produce better quality software than its proprietary or alternative counterparts. What makes open source unique is that you're not paying for the right to use the underlying intellectual property. You're going to be paying for both regardless of if the software is open or closed source, the cost often being baked into the license in the case of commercial, off-the-shelf software (COTS). Additional costs like training, maintenance, and support are sunk costs. Adopting open source software generally has a lower up-front cost (because the software often comes at no cost or relatively low cost), and shifts the cost center from licensing (an operating expense) to customization and implementation (a capital expense). Lower total cost of ownership (TCO): Using open source software yields a lower total cost of ownership when compared to closed source and proprietary alternatives. Why not stand on the shoulders of technology giants? This frees developers up to work on yet-unsolved challenges, the types of challenges that are unique to and add value to your organization's mission. While your developers could spend their time reinventing wheels that the open source community have already perfected, it's far preferable to use the worlds best wheel, especially when that wheel comes at no cost to you. Blogging, content management, and operating systems are all problems with established (and mainstream) open source solutions, to name a few. Shift developers from low-value work to high-value work. We like to say in open source that all the easy problems have already been solved.
Open source is in your best interest, whether you're an individual, a corporation, a small business, a non-profit, or a government agency. Open source is awesome, and there are many reasons why you might consider consuming, publishing, collaborating on, or supporting open source.
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