Are proprietary maintenance fees worse than open-source maintenance fees?

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Dec 4, 2007 10:45 AM EDT
CNet Blogs; By Matt Asay
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Gartner has gone on the warpath, smacking down proprietary vendors' practice of discounting upfront license fees in order to lock customers into lucrative, ongoing maintenance contracts. The ironic thing is that it sounds somewhat similar to how commercial open-source companies price their software, except that there is no upfront license fees.

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