Why Yahoo! uses Open Source

Am listening to this talk by Jeremy Zawodny on how they use Open Source software and why at Yahoo! He makes some good arguments why it makes sense for them to use Open Source.

Listen to it at ITConversations.com

For over ten years, Yahoo! has been building some of the Internet’s most popular content and services on an Open Source platform. Yahoo! uses a lot of Open Source Software (OSS) internally including Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, Perl, PHP and MySQL. Jeremy Zawodny says that OSS helps them to “remix” and configure the software to their needs.