On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:06 +0000, Gary Husband wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to convince my place of work to offer Open Office as an > alternative to Microsoft office but at present I am getting my companies > standard reply of it is Open Source and that is issued under GPL which > usually costs businesses money and will not be free for us to install. > > >From looking at your website I cannot see reference to companies being > charged, can you please confirm if a company which employs approx 3000 > people would charged for adopting Open office as one of it's office tools > suites ? > > Kind regards > > Gary
OpenOffice.og is free to anyone or any organisation that wishes to use it for any legal purpose. Please see the paragraph beginning: "But the licence is still the same" on the following web page: http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html Copies of the licences can be found here: http://www.openoffice.org/license.html While OpenOffice.org itself is free, implementing a program to migrate a large number of employees from MSO to OOo would almost certainly involve your company in some costs (eg. training, document conversion, etc.). However, in the long term it will cost your company considerably less than paying MS for endless licencing charges. HTH Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
