Winning organisations over to free software

There have been many attempts to get free software onto desktop systems in businesses and public institutions in the last decade. The success is still limited even if we got certain success in education and in fast growing economies as Brazil, India, Russia and China.

Real life trials shows that ordinary users like the GNU+Linux desktop. Computer maintainers say they just use half the time maintaining free software compared with the proprietary alternatives. Even after having the upper hand on all important procurement parameters, most organisations go for a proprietary solution, disregarding practical real life evaluations when acquiring a computer solution. Yrvin explains how to get out of this stalemate, zero-sum situation. The talk are intended for all, including experienced and non-experienced free software users and developers.

Knut Yrvin has been helping municipalities, cities and states switching to free software for a decade. He got first hand experience why excellent free software developers fail when meeting ordinary users and single minded computer maintenance staff. He has been directly involved in countless cases where free software wins on technical merit, with lower Total Cost of Ownership and with positive user experience.