It's a common cultural problem in the OpenSource community. Everyone thinks "they" deserve all software for free, but if you have a company or business email address "you" should spend all of your money so that they can continue to have free software. It doesn't matter what OpenSource operating system or application/software package you are using, this irrational response persists. I imagine it is even more persistent in the LO world since they just cut free of "Sugar Daddy" and now need a revenue source.
I actually laugh when I'm greeted with this mentality. "They" have no idea if you are a one many shop or a Fortune 50 corporation. "They" all think you can plunk down hundreds of thousands of dollars on a whim to keep software coming to "them." I told many this would happen, and even watched it happen about a decade ago. When the bulk of the community switched from programmers to consumers. Since they aren't programmers, they don't think programmers should be paid and have no idea how many thousands of hours it takes to correctly design, develop, and TEST a commercial grade application. All they know is that they expect commercial grade software for free...thanks to Microsoft for dramatically lowering the bar on what qualifies as "commercial grade software." If, however, you tell them to show up at their Union/factory job and work 60/hours per week for 6 months absolutely gratis, "they" will unleash holy hell on you. There was actually a fund raising bar thing on the libreoffice site when the broke away. I don't see it now. You see, those people who "work for" an OpenOffice project at the top don't work for free either. On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 14:34 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2011-05-29 3:58 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > > An example : can anyone point me to a webpage from the Foundation or the > > LibreOffice.org site where it clearly states that LibreOffice is not > > intended for business use or that if you are a business you should buy > > support ? > > No, because there isn't one, because there is no requirement or even > strong recommendation. > > But of course there is certainly nothing wrong with buying a support > contract if you want one. > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted