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  <title>Why Businesses Should Run OSS</title>
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  In the United States (and elsewhere) companies will often mistake
  cost for quality.  Less technically savvy people will say, "If it is
  free it must not be worth anything".  This is false, and here are
  some examples of "worthless" OSS:

  <ul>

    <!-- Maybe I should just have the names of the software -->

    <li>BIND</li>

   <!-- is the software behind 90% of the DNS's on the Internet,
        without it there would be no Internet -->

    <li>Apache webserver</li>

    <!-- is the most commonly deployed webserver on
        the planet, it also serves more pages per installation then
        competing proprietary webservers. -->

    <li>TCP/IP stacks</li>

        <!--  developed using Open Source
        methods and proprietary methods found that the Open stacks
        were more stable -->

    <li>Linux kernel</li>

   <!--From the very beginning Linux installations can have uptimes of
        over 1 year (kernel panics are extremely rare) -->

    <li>Mozilla web browser</li>

    <!--offers an excellent variant to Internet
        Explorer.  Has unique features like tabbed browsing and the
        ability to turn off Javascript features (pop-ups, window
        hiding, resizing etc.) -->

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