Licence fees and GDP per capita: The case for open source in developing countries

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

[from http://www.sdnp.undp.org/observatory/ ]


Licence fees and GDP per capita: The case for open source in 
developing countries 

This note argues that the controversy over total costs of ownership 
(TCO) of free vs. proprietary software is not applicable to 
developing countries and other regions with low labour costs, where 
the TCO advantage lies with open source, and the share of licence 
fees in TCO is much higher than in high labour cost countries. The 
note concludes with a table comparing license fees for proprietary 
software against GDP per capita for 176 countries. (Source: First 
Monday)


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