On 2011-05-30 2:53 PM, Roland Hughes wrote: > 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. > 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've never seen or noticed such an attitude - certainly not anything nearly as pervasive or prevalent as you seem to by suggesting. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
