In every software category, free and open source software is a growing presence. In this chapter, we address the following questions:
What is free and open source software?
How can free and open source software make business sense?
What are the leading free and open source software projects for analytics?
The most obvious attribute of free and open source software is something it lacks: software licensing fees. We will show, in this chapter, that free and open source software is viable, and that it is disrupting incumbents in the analytic software industry. ...
