No insinuation was made, that GPL "prevents" paid support.
There are hundreds, probably thousands of companies world wide, whether on the NYSE, or small business operators, who host sites & already have Mailman installed. Anyone who thinks they can "host" from their basement, using DSL or Cable, is sadly misinformed, when for a couple dollars a week, they can obtain 100Mb or more, and run Mailman and a dozen other software packages, host their site, email, etc, and receive "support" from the hosting provider. Compared to "paid" support from the big guys, which can be $25 or more "per incident" it's more reasonable than attempting a do it yourself project using a slow, unreliable connection. Anyone willing to pay for support, should get their full money's worth, and receive a reliable connection, bandwidth, space, software, etc. SD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Basener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan? | To risk sliding into an OT area, it is not unreasonable for someone to | offer to pay for support for an open source product. Certainly nothing | in the GPL prevents taking payment to provide support for a GPL | product. There are even some firms out there that are traded on the | NYSE whose business is based nearly entirely on that concept. | | Dave Basener | | On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 07:54, Support Desk wrote: | > | > Ha, ha.. This is open source, not microsloth, there is | > no "paid" support option.. | > | > SD | > | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "Steve Shultz " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 1:23 AM | > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan? | > | > | > | We are downloading Mailman on our Linux box. Is there paid technical | > | support available? | > | | > | Steve Shultz | > | Albany, Oregon | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
