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Those are services, not software.

Most US businesses do their payroll in-house --- using proprietary software --- mainly due to cost reasons.

Companies that outsource payroll to a service provider are actually a minority --- mostly larger businesses.

https://www.civica.com/en-us/insights/managed-payroll-or-in-...



Yes, and FOSS payroll software also exists. People don't use it because they'd rather pay for a service that offers support (another service) and absolves them of liability (another service).


Show me some FOSS for US payroll and I will tell you why it's inadequate for a lot (if not most) businesses.


It doesn't take a business degree to repeat what I told you in the last comment.


I'm not asking for a repeat, I'm asking you to substantiate your claim that "FOSS payroll software also exists". There is next to nothing available and certainly nothing that I would classify as "adequate".

This is just one example --- specialized business software is almost non-existent in open source. And I see no reason to believe this will change any time soon.




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