subject:"\[Trisquel\-users\] Petition the Government to use F\/OSS to lower their expenses."

Re: [Trisquel-users] Petition the Government to use F/OSS to lower their expenses.

2012-02-12 Thread mikko . viinamaki

There are about 200 governments on planet earth, you know. And yes, they all should prefer free software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Petition the Government to use F/OSS to lower their expenses.

2012-02-11 Thread alonivtsan

The point of using free software is freedom not price. In the short term migrating from proprietary software to free software might in fact be more expensive than paying for proprietary software licenses (but in the long term it should save money).