[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Hi Ash
As you were not subscribed to the mailing list you may not have seen the
discussion your query engendered. Look at the thread in the archives at:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=61082
Russell
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