Hi, my name is Ash Roskell, Your product was recently recommended to me be a nice chap at PC World. I had never heard of it before. Upon looking at what it offers I am very tempted to download it. However, call me an old cynic, but I keep asking people, why is the product free? What's in it for the producers of the product? What am I missing?
Clearly people are working hard to promote and expand the use of this product; and somebody has worked hard to create a major program which seems to rival Microsoft in its capabilities. Yet, without knowing what the agenda of the company producing Open Office is, I hesitate to embrace it. Something for nothing is a rare event which defies the laws of physics, let alone human behaviour. I'm sure that there is a very obvious and benign reason for the existence of this product, which is not obvious to me; but I would love to know what it is? Please could some one tell me? I believe, and seem to be born out though various discussions I have had, that, if it was made clear and obvious on your first web-page (and believe me, I have been looking) why free, high quality software, which rivals that of the top companies, is being distributed on the net, people would be less suspiscious of the motives for the actions of people whom I feel sure are nice altruistic individuals really. In short; Why not tell people, up front, why it is free? I can't find out by going through your site pages, though I have probably missed the explanation somewhere. My e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please get in touch, God bless. Ash
