On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 although I don't know what MS Office 2003 end-of-life has to do with it, > particularly. >
It is something we're seeing. Organizations who purchased licenses for Office 2003, and see support ending in April 2014. They are starting to explore their options now. A large migration will take this long. So this is an opportunity for those who have products or services in areas ranging from training, to migration, document conversion, etc. -Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:36 > To: [email protected] > Subject: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post) > > I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post > along the lines of "How to make money with Apache OpenOffice"? > > I appreciate that Apache is a non-profit and that we do not pay for > developers, etc. But we are also commercially friendly, and our > permissive license and focus on consumable source releases supports > this. One view is that this is good for the community, to encourage > commercial interest in a product, since that leads to investment in > the code, and investment leads to a larger, more diverse community. > Yes, some will take and never give back. But for many commercial > ventures there are notable advantages to working with the community, > having credibility and commit privileges, etc. So it s a win-win, I > think. > > The proposed blog post would cover a few business models, emphasize > the opportunity brought on by the end of life of MS Office 2003, etc. > > If anyone is uncomfortable with this I can do it on my personal blog, > of course. But it is relevant to the AOO project, so I'd prefer to > put it here. > > No rush to decide. I won't get to this for another week, at least. > > -Rob >
