Economic implications

• What are the economic benefits and detriments of developing open source system?

• Who is going to pay for software development if open source becomes the norm?

• How does society influence creation of software?

Countries and municipalities frequently consider policies to favor open source technologies over proprietary choices. Main resons for doing so is that open source presents opportunities to countries that are growing their ICT infrastructure because it is often a low-cost software choice (and free, at least in its simple form) and can foster a local technology development community rather than sending license streams to large technology companies in other countries.