Covid - The Case For Open Source Software I am a child of the 1970's, I was born in the UK during a time of recession and remember bartering for the things that I wanted as a child. There have been multiple down turns of during my life time but the economic impact of Covid will dwarf all of those in scale. Companies and corporations will fail in many countries and those companies that survive will need to be leaner. A favourite Sun-Tsu quote of mine is "In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity" . The opportunity that I would suggest for cash strapped companies in a post Covid world would be the arena of open source software and systems. Most IT people will be well aware of every system that I mention in this article but perhaps non IT people are not and so it might be of use ? I will examine many open source areas like operating systems, databases through to functional systems like distributed storage. Covid Shock - Impact On India Over the last couple