Robert Derman wrote:
Anton Erasmus wrote:
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Sometimes it is good if programs such as OpenOffice is available at a
fairly substantial price. Many finacially orientated people directly
couple a products value to it's price. If you give them OpenOffice,
they think it is valueless. If they have to pay for it, then it has
value. We had this situation with gcc at my company. We had great
problems
convincing managment that we can use gcc for our project. Only when we
got a quite from redhat for something like US$ 11000 for gcc, dit we
get the go ahead. The company purchased gcc supoort at this price, the
bean counters were happy, and by the time we received the official
documentation and discs, we had already downloaded gcc and were more
than 50% complete with the project.
Regards
Anton Erasmus
Indeed, some people are stupid!
Great story anyway :-). May I use it as an example within a related
discussion in another mailing list?
Tomas
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