Please avoid the loaded term "free"...
Also, you need to differentiate between s/w available directly
from the ASF, which is always no-charge, to Apache s/w available
from vendors which may have a cost associated with it ("What
do you mean you're charging me for Hadoop!? Apache sez their
s/w is always free!").
As such, I feel the page confuses things more than it clarifies
it. :/
On May 21, 2012, at 9:37 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
> Since this question is coming up much much more now that we have AOO, I
> figured we need an official URL and resource to point to when people ask.
>
> http://www.apache.org/free
>
> Any glaring errors? Anything I should add, or express more clearly?
>
> The immediate driver for this as a memorable URL is the AOO podling, since
> you clearly have the greatest need (with the huge non-technical user base).
> Is there anything in particular we should consider adding to address AOO or
> OOo users specifically?
>
> - Shane
>
