On 2011-05-30 5:22 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > On 05/30/2011 03:46 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2011-05-30 2:53 PM, Roland Hughes wrote: >>> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 14:34 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> 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. > Well, that attitude has been seen before by some people I know. "I get > mine free, while you have to pay for yours" , is the mindset I see > myself from time to time. > > Open Source does cost. I didn't say it doesn't cost anything... I said I didn't see the attitude exhibited as described by Roland. And what you then go on to describe is *not* the same thing as Roland described, not even close... Of course free software costs... and I for one am very appreciative of the efforts (yours and others, here and elsewhere) of those who make free software possible. -- 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
