Ontario Education ministry buys Star Office

[John Moniz]

Peter King wrote:

>On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 05:21:14PM -0700, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
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>>Well, I am often surprized when I hear on a Linux list that it is good to
>>pay for software.
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>Being committed to open-source software does not mean that one is
>committed to no-cost software. Free as in speech does not entail free as
>in beer -- too bad!
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>Personally, I find that everything I need to do with a computer is
>pretty well handled by no-cost open-source software. But I would be
>happy to pay for the same open-source software if that were the only 
>way to get it (while remaining open-source of course). If Linus asked
>us all for $10 a year so he could keep doing things exactly as he does
>them now, I'd send my money in tomorrow.
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The ITBusiness article on this deal quoted a sun representative as 
saying that the licences were provided at "minimal" cost. It's possible 
the cost was well below the listed price on sun's web site.

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