Gary Husband wrote:
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.
Go to that individual's boss and explain that he is incompetent, and/or
has been bribed by Microsoft.
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 ?
If you wish traditional software support, you are probably better off
getting StarOffice from Sun. StarOffice is essentially the same thing as
OpenOffice.org (the legal name of the software), with a few additional
features. You have to pay for it, but it is about 1/10 the cost of
Microsoft Office.
But if you can accept OpenOffice.org as-is, and can deal with using this
mailing list for support, it is absolutely free (unless you get it on a
CD, in which case you'll have to pay a little for the CD itself). You
don't have to pay one penny, no matter how many copies you have. You can
even give it away to others.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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