Hello, > From: Chris Maffey [mailto:ch...@maffey.com]
> I have been distributing OO Cds since 2002, from my website > http://openoffice.org.nz/. > > This is mostly an exercise in helping distribute OpenOffice, > rather than a > money maker. I sell the CDs for around $3.50 USD, and after > all the CD > printing, Package printing, CD Burning expenses there is no profit. > > I know this is not a huge contribution, however I have sold > around 3,700 OO > CDs in New Zealand over the last 10 years, which possibly > helps in a little > way. I think that's good, thank you for your work. But I think "profit" is something positive, because imho the statement of the FSF is correct: "Since free software is not a matter of price, a low price does not make the free software, or even closer to free. So if you are redistributing copies of free software, you might as well charge a substantial fee and make some money . Redistributing free software is a good and legitimate activity;. if you do it, you might as well make a profit from it " see: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.en For example, we have, in the past, the PrOOo-Box (professionally pressed DVD plus printed manual (150 pages) in a box) sold for 12 euros. We used this money for the local work on OOo, for example, for fairs how the LinuxTag (http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html). Greetings, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
