Jo wrote:
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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You Wrote
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)
A friend gave me my first computer - a 486DX clone w/all the bells and
whistles. It went down after a week, and I had to learn to fix it.
After that I got computers and monitors out of the trash. Never found a
MAC in the trash!
I now buy a good motherboard , like an ASUS and AMD chip, and build the
rest from old parts.
Maybe they buy a computer, and don't have any money left over.
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