I've never assumed nor said that once you buy Microsoft/proprietary software you'll all set to go. However, the Open Sores community seems to think that once you acquire their software your done. You don't need to pay for maintenance, training, installation, tuning, etc. And they are still touting (I read it in an article this week) that if you can modify the source code.

>And probably hitting everything else, eh?
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>I have heard this argument that with Microsoft (always using euphemism "proprietary" to mean "Microsoft") it is cheaper because you pay in advance and then you're all set, no other costs, while with open source it's only seemingly free, but you waste so much time having to train the people, pay for maintenance, etc etc. Somehow it seems to assume that with the "proprietary" there is no maintenance, no training and no services charged later. I am just questioning that assumption.