Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

On 7 February 2015 at 13:22, Jean-Baptiste Faure
<jbfaure@libreoffice.org> wrote:
> Le 06/02/2015 22:02, Urmas a écrit :
> > "Italo Vignoli":
> >
> > You need to understand that there are only two kinds of soft- and
> > hardware: that which solves the client problem at adequate cost, and
> > that which doesn't. Anything else is irrelevant.
>
> You're right. But the issue is how you calculate the costs. For me
> proprietary licenses are unacceptable high costs for office suites. In
> other words, proprietary licenses create problems and do not solve none
> of my problems.

The FOSS isn't to lower your cost. Freeware and SaaS/Freemium *are*,
among others.

If FOSS lowers your cost, +1 for FOSS and all, but it's by the way.
Long term it does because absence of issues (vendor lock-in for
example) it addresses as a consequence of its freedoms indeed lowers
the cost. But it's hard to claim that attracting by lowering the cost
was the original plan.

(you're right if by cost you mean something else than the raw money)

-- 
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