Jacqui Caren wrote: > Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: >> Many people still believe that free (as in beer) stuff can't be any good. >> Arguments like "who are you going to sue?" etc. Like you are going >> to sue Microsoft for a bug in Word, or Outlook. > > The "sue" bit is very very important to many corporates. My employer funded > a relatively critical perl module and we had numerous large corporates > and multi's sending threatening emails, phone calls and faxes during the Y2K > panic.
In the context of OSS, it's almost as if corporates feel the need to sue Shakespeare for shaping the English language in the wrong way, all those years ago, every time the words don't read right. Code should be free like words and grammar. Then those that can 'read and write' are paid for their knowledge, efforts and support like. -- Damian -- w: http://www.diaser.org.uk - Geo-data replication long-term archive system (WAN vault)- v1-beta2 w: http://www.walkingwiththeelephants.co.uk - ebook about small scale OSS collaborative development w: http://interlinux.co.uk/wordpress/?p=371 - DSI invading aliens game -- This message has been scanned by MailScanner. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
