> From: Pedro Giffuni [mailto:p...@apache.org]
> > > I will simplify the marketing issue making a bold > statement: "We have > > > millions of users because we do 80% of what the market leader > > > does but > > > with 0% of the price." > > > > > > No, the success of free software is not a question of price. > > The success of free software is based on many things, of > which price is > only one of them. Exactly, so I wrote my answer, because I found that you had over-emphasized the factor price > The GNU copyleftists have always struggled with economics but that is > rather off-topic. Please let me clarify: I'm not a specific GNU fan (rather I like the MIT license), but the linked text contains a nice play on words (in German translation), because in Deutschand the word "profit" is frowned upon. Therefore I quote this text frequently. > No one has really quantified the real cost of producing > OpenOffice maybe. But for example as I have my diploma thesis written (*) on the theme: "Migration Strategies to OpenSource-Software" and there are also statements about costs of open source, especially for OpenOffice.org (I mean .org, the diploma thesis is from 2005). (*) on the TH Wildau (Germany): https://www.th-wildau.de/ > Such costs existed before OpenOffice was an Apache Project, > and we can't > at all quantify how much OpenOffice's value is for the Apache > Software > Foundation. already clear, the numbers were only an illustration Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
