Twelve Myths about Free and Open Source Software

Bruce Byfield has written a great piece about the 12 myths of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software):

His points include:

1. If software costs nothing, it's no good
   
2. FOSS is inferior to proprietary software
   
3. FOSS is piracy (or at least encourages it)
   
4. FOSS has no support
   
5. FOSS is only for developers
   
6. Using FOSS means working from the command line
   
7. FOSS is only good for small projects
   
8. FOSS is unable to develop games
   
9. Having the code freely available makes it less secure than proprietary code
   
10. FOSS is unable to innovate
    
11. Since the license places restrictions on the users, FOSS isn't really free
    
12. FOSS is all about price
    

Read more here: Twelve Myths about Free and Open Source Software