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Disadvantages of Opensource

Please list and explain the disadvantages of opensource software from users and organizations' perspectives.
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Cost can definitely be an issue and open source applications more often than not are significantly less expensive than their commercial counterparts for the initial outlay and licensing.   What often gets overlooked are the training, maintenance and support costs, which can negate (or worse) whatever savings you might have acheived in the initlal outlay.

If you have a small organization with a fairly stable pool of staff personnel who are willing to bring themselves up to spped using open source applications, great!   You can save yourself a lot of money.  Otherwise, you, as the IT support person, may grow grey before your time and wish your company had stuck with mainstream apps.
that would be "up to speed"...   darn typo's!
Not in my opinion.  You might put this to a moderator if you think it violates the "doing your homework for you" rule.  Personally, I was just answring the question and giving the benefit of my opinion and experience.  Besides, after more than 30 days since the original question and almost 30 since the last post (not counting yours), I would consider it an abandoned question.   Moderators?  I leave it up to you.
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With OpenSource sometimes people have hidden spyware so whenever you install the OS software it will start giving you problems.  Everything else is pretty much mentioned by the experts above.

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