Do what Red-Hat does. Charge for support and automatic updates! Good business plan. Lots of recurring revenue! > Okay, well, I understand that this will be VERY hard to comprehend, but --- > > Sun made some mention about 6 weeks or so back that they were > considering charging for Star Office because they were hearing a LOT of > feedback from corporate america that they wouldn't consider using it > unless they could pay for it. The perception being that if it was free > then Sun wasn't standing behind it. > > Gotta say that I've seen this attitude at several of the companies I've > worked at as a consultant. Can't use freeware, there's nobody to sue. > Like they'd ever actually sued a software vendor. > > Of course, I think OpenOffice will remain free, so you'll kind of have a > choice of buying StarOffice and getting the add-on goodies or using > OpenOffice. I don't think Sun can very well take back the freed code. > > I WILL be interested to see how much Sun decides to charge. > > jethro at freakzilla.com wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Quoting Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>: > >>Sun wishes to charge license fees for usage of the Windows and Linux > >>versions. > >>Only the version for Sun's own operation system Solaris will remain > >>free. > > > > You know what's REALLY stupid about this? > > > > SOLARIS IS FREE! > > > > What on Earth is the point of making StarOffice free for Solaris but > > nothing else? Anyone can download the Solaris/x86 8 ISOs off Sun's > > website and run it on a spare PC - even if you bought a new low-end PC > > it'd cost less than licensing Office for a small business. > > > > -Yaron > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list