Michael Douglas schreef:
To whom it may concern:
I would like to switch to OOo as our productivity suite instead of Microsoft
at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. I am going to talk to the IT
department to see if we can switch to OOo, but before I do wanted to ask if
there is there any cost to use the program in a government facility.
Thank you,
Michael Douglas
No cost whatsoever, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Make CDs
available for people who visit the library. You can charge something for
the blank CDs and for handling (up to around $10) if you like. (You can
charge $500 too, if you find any takers... but you might get some
complaints if you do that, from people who find out aferwards that they
could also have downloaded it for free.). What you cannot do is forbid
the people who buy from you to give copies of their copy away or to sell
it to their neighbors. If you do distribute, you have to include the
source code. Convenient iso images are available that include everything
you need.
I think that putting a jar next to the stack of CD-ROMs telling people
that as long providing those CD-ROMs is not costing you or the library
anything is a good way to go. This way people who really have no money
and can't even afford $5 or $10 (how do they afford their computer, I
don't know) can get one for free and others can put something in the jar
for the expense of CD blanks. Of course you can even lend CDs.
Also check out the manuals that are being created at
http://oooauthors.org/en . They are also available for free if you
download them or for a very low price if you want them as books.
And of course, you can always donate money, either to OOo or to another
free software project, but spreading the software actually is a
contribution as well. The more people that start using it, the more
support it will get and the sooner this world will be a better place.
Cheers,
Jo
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