Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Trivia Question - Further Observation

On 2011-05-30 2:53 PM, Roland Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 14:34 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> > On 2011-05-29 3:58 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > > An example : can anyone point me to a webpage from the Foundation or the
> > > LibreOffice.org site where it clearly states that LibreOffice is not
> > > intended for business use or that if you are a business you should buy
> > > support ?

> > No, because there isn't one, because there is no requirement or even
> > strong recommendation.
> >
> > But of course there is certainly nothing wrong with buying a support
> > contract if you want one.

> It's a common cultural problem in the OpenSource community.  Everyone
> thinks "they" deserve all software for free, but if you have a company
> or business email address "you" should spend all of your money so that
> they can continue to have free software.  It doesn't matter what
> OpenSource operating system or application/software package you are
> using, this irrational response persists.  I imagine it is even more
> persistent in the LO world since they just cut free of "Sugar Daddy" >
and now need a revenue source.

I've never seen or noticed such an attitude - certainly not anything
nearly as pervasive or prevalent as you seem to by suggesting.

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