On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:16, Sümer Yamaner MD wrote: >Dear ladies&gentlemen, >I am a general surgeon and plan to use Open Office Suite in my private >practice. Is this possible? Will this usage be regarded as > "commercial" usage? Should I pay for a licence in this case and if > yes how? Can you help me? Thanks. > >Sumer Yamaner MD
There is no charge of any kind to anyone to use OpenOffice at home or in your business. Download it, burn the cd, and install it on every machine in your neighborhood if the owners will let you. :-) However, since you are talking about a commercial usage, please be aware that the support for OpenOffice is strictly done by volunteers, the members of this mailing list, and who may not know the answer to a question in what would be a timely manner for business use. If you'd feel more comfortable paying for it, and getting paid support, then I'd suggest that you check out StarOffice, which is the commercial, supported version. It may have more functionality than OpenOffice, or less in some cases because what might become a future feature in StarOffice is first tested in OpenOffice. Its available from Sun also, at less than a $100 bill the last time I looked. And I didn't note what the next years support contract might have been. I believe the purchase price includes the first years support. Or was it 90 days, I don't know for sure. Whatever you are comfortable with, and does the job for you is what I'd use. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
