Re: [Marketing] Free or not free?

[Ian Lynch]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:37 +, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> What do you mean by "commercial version"? If you want to pay for it you 
> are welcome to make a donation to the project.

Perhaps he means Star Office?

Try www.sun.com
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Re: [Marketing] Free or not free?

[Steven Shelton]

Stephen Rose wrote:

I found OpenOffice on sale at a computing website (www.funkyputer.com
 ) and would like to know if you have a
commercial version?


You have probably already gotten several replies on this, but in case 
you haven't . . .


OpenOffice.org is a commercial product. By "commercial" I mean stable, 
fully-featured, and on par with other well-known office suites, such as 
Microsoft Office and the Corel office suite. It has been developed by 
Sun Microsystems in collaboration with a huge volunteer developer base, 
and is in use by many large corporations and governments around the 
world. The only real difference between OpenOffice.org and more 
"traditional" products is that OpenOffice.org is not "commercial" in 
that sense that you have to pay for it; you are free to download the 
application (an the source code, if you wish) and install it on as many 
computers as you want, give as many copies away as you want, or even 
modify it, rebrand it, and sell it as your own product (provided you 
comply with the requirements of the license). Yeah, I know . . . sounds 
too good to be true, but for once it's not. In fact, the fact that the 
application is "free" has been one of the major obstacles in marketing 
the thing: people tend to be suspicious of stuff that's just given away 
(and for good reason).


If you really WANT to pay for it, you can buy StarOffice, which is Sun 
Microsystems' rebranded version. StarOffice has some extra tools and 
goodies thrown in, and I believe Sun provides live technical support for 
StarOffice purchasers (although I don't really know much about it myself.)


You can get more information here:
http://www.openoffice.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org
http://www.oooforum.org/

Enjoy!

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Re: [Marketing] Free or not free?

[Daniel Carrera]

What do you mean by "commercial version"? If you want to pay for it you 
are welcome to make a donation to the project.


Cheers,
Daniel.

Stephen Rose wrote:

I found OpenOffice on sale at a computing website (www.funkyputer.com
 ) and would like to know if you have a
commercial version?

 


Thank you

Stephen Rose





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[Marketing] Free or not free?

[Stephen Rose]

I found OpenOffice on sale at a computing website (www.funkyputer.com
 ) and would like to know if you have a
commercial version?

 

Thank you

Stephen Rose