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Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!
by David A. Wheeler

An Analysis of Microsoft's TCO Study by Thomas Pfau

Microsoft performed a study comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of Windows NT 4.0 with Sun's Solaris. They claimed a victory for NT. But maybe it's not as big a victory as they claim.

Microsoft recently referenced this study from their Linux Myths page. They claim that Linux should cost as much to own as Solaris since they are both Unix-based operating systems. Could this be true?

Aurora Development's Whitepaper: Fact, Fiction or FUD? by D Clyde Williamson

Stephen Forte, of the Aurora Development Group wrote a whitepaper discussing the topic of Linux vs. NT. Here we have a blow-by-blow commentary of Mr. Forte's paper. Is it fact, fiction or FUD?

A rebuttal to Microsoft's Linux Myths document by Rik van Riel

"Linux Myths" is the article that started the FUD-counter website. It appears that some Microsoft PR people got a bit too fanatic and wrote the article that was the beginning of the end of Microsoft's credibility. This is the rebuttal to their article. Unfortunately I never got around to finishing this article, hopefully someone else will pick it up some day and complete it for historic value...

A story from Hills Software about Free Software and the use thereof by the Military. (US DOD).

The starts with some laughable coldwar hype horror-story, then gets nearly hilariuos over an decades old compiler compiler prank by Ken Thompson and to close the deal tries to convice the gullible that the DOD never checks third-party software and source-code it uses. So Free and Open-Source Software means the end of the universe as we know it.

"The More debunking comments at LWN.net give some more insight about the story.