On 02/08/2015 01:09 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
On 7 February 2015 at 13:22, Jean-Baptiste Faure
<[email protected]> wrote:
Le 06/02/2015 22:02, Urmas a écrit :
"Italo Vignoli":
You need to understand that there are only two kinds of soft- and
hardware: that which solves the client problem at adequate cost, and
that which doesn't. Anything else is irrelevant.
You're right. But the issue is how you calculate the costs. For me
proprietary licenses are unacceptable high costs for office suites. In
other words, proprietary licenses create problems and do not solve none
of my problems.
The FOSS isn't to lower your cost. Freeware and SaaS/Freemium *are*,
among others.
If FOSS lowers your cost, +1 for FOSS and all, but it's by the way.
Long term it does because absence of issues (vendor lock-in for
example) it addresses as a consequence of its freedoms indeed lowers
the cost. But it's hard to claim that attracting by lowering the cost
was the original plan.
(you're right if by cost you mean something else than the raw money)
While we tend to focus on financial costs with FOSS vs proprietary that
probably is not as big an issue for many. The real problem with
proprietary packages is they often use proprietary file formats. If you
realize that proprietary formats impede file sharing between users
because each must have a reliable way of reading the format. This leaves
at the mercy of the owner of the format; will they support it in the
future or even will they be in business in the future. If one remember
the 80's and early 90's every word processing program used its own
format. While file sharing was not a prime concern, many of the programs
were produced by companies that are out of business.
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Jay Lozier
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