free. However often companies, organisations and governments find it best to use a fraction of the cost-savings to either; 1. hire devs to work on LibreOffice (and maybe other Open Source software such as Firefox) in order to get some control over future developments, which bugs get prioritised and for tier3 support 2. to pay some external organisation to provide tier 3 technical support One of our pages lists some good organisations to get tier 3 support but there are many other places too and it's possible that existing contracts could take on LibreOffice as part of the support-package that an organisation already buys in.
By sharing the coding it means better quality assurance as the code is tested on millions of real-world machines world-wide. Anything that does get into the main-branch is then available for everyone so you get the benefit of coding paid for by thousands of other companies, organisations and governments world-wide too. Many individuals or small companies give time to the project rather than direct payments or easily recognisable and quantifiable resources. Time such as a few hours per however often of marketing, dealing with users-questions, helping with documentation = it all helps! There are also a LOT of volunteers that join in with this whole process so a lot of people working on the project are very dedicated to getting the best possible quality software. LibreOffice recently won recognition for having the least number of errors per line of coding than any other known software program, far lower than MS Office but also lower than the security programs written to keep systems secure. Regards from Tom :) On 3 September 2014 20:41, Julie Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Kevin. So it is free for all users. > > Have a great day! > > Julie Fitzpatrick > City of Moose Jaw > > > From: Kevin O'Brien [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: September-03-14 1:32 PM > To: Julie Fitzpatrick > Cc: [email protected]; Amber Coates; Wade McKay > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] licensing for LibreOffice - Draw > > Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Here is the license, from the > LibreOffice Web site: > > http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses/ > > The way you ask the question sounds like you have legal concerns, so the > license may assure your legal department on this score. But LibreOffice is > definitely free and open to all users. > > Regards, > > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Julie Fitzpatrick < > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Good Day Sir or Madame, > > I am interested in trying out your product - LibreOffice - Draw. I work > for the City of Moose Jaw (Municipal Government) I would like to confirm > licensing. Is your LibreOffice Suite(which includes Draw) free for > Municipal Government users such as City of Moose Jaw as well. Please > confirm. Thanks so much. > > Have a great day! > > Julie Fitzpatrick > City of Moose Jaw > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected]<mailto: > users%[email protected]> > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > -- > Kevin B. O'Brien > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://google.me/+kevinobrien > Facebook is Evil. Cancel your account. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
