Troy Leonard wrote:
I am starting a small business building custom computers and I want to
know
if I can distribute open office with the new computers I build. I will not
charge extra for your software but I don't want to violate your ownership
rights.
OK, just a quick digression (at the risk of inadvertently hijacking this
thread with a long discussion). While I like the open source model and
OOo software, I was just wondering what the impact would be of requiring
a small fee for this kind of use of OO. That is, for any bundling on
commercial computers and/or for distributions where a fee is charged
(beyond shipping costs). The fee, of course, would help cover the
development costs, costs of the website and these discussions, etc.
I understand that actually collecting such fees would be difficult and
costly to do and that cost might well mean the fee would have to be
prohibitively high. I also understand that at least one benefit of NO
fees is greater distribution and hence greater competition with
commercial equivalents. I also understand the importance of making it as
inexpensive as possible to obtain OO for as many people as possible.
I'm sure this has been discussed before, and I'm not looking for an
extended discussion here. Maybe just a quick synopsis of what has been
said before.
Carl
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