# Should You Pay for an Open Source Distribution?

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**Created:** [March 2, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/should-you-pay-for-an-open-source-distribution/33626 "2019-03-02T02:23:04Z")\
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Should You Pay for an Open Source Distribution?

Open source – we love it, right? All this information and software available at the click of a button, and even better? It’s free! Who doesn’t love free? It has been estimated that open source software collectively saves businesses around $60 billion a year. These days, for much of the paid for proprietary software solutions, […]  
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