Phil Hibbs wrote: > Harold Fuchs: > > So, am I being > > paranoid in thinking that the choice of the name "LibreOffice" suggests that > > at some stage it will no longer be Gratis? > > Yup. > Totally not - it being LGPLv3 licensed will lead to its source code being freely available eternally - and transitively, since the marginal cost of supplying binaries to users approaches zero (with some purported 100 million users of OOo), that also holds for the final product.
(besides that, the notion of "gratis" is misleading at best - of course there's inherent cost in every software, FLOSS being no exception - and of course someone needs to develop it, test it, translate it, etc - either by donating time, or money) Cheers, -- Thorsten
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