Dear Sir It's free.
However, an extra advantage of using OpenSource software is that organisations can re-invest some of those savings into having more control of the work that goes into the product. Some examples; * If a university created a new, possibly part-time, employment position such as "Community Development Officer" then that person could work with professors, lecturers, teachers to enable students to work on real-world projects rather than just relying on learning purely theoretical knowledge. * Students learning "English as a foreign language" could tackle small sections of the various guides to translate into their own language. Alternatively their homework or classwork projects might be to work on video tutorials; reading or creating scripts, capturing video screen-shots http://spoken-tutorial.org/ * Students learning business studies or sales and marketing might be encouraged to work together to appear at a trade-show or conference to promote or inform people about the advantages of LibreOffice and OpenSource in general. It might involve creating or adapting marketing materials, own-language Dvds. * Students in computer sciences might learn C++ or Python faster if they are given "Easy hacks" or if the university finds something specific they want coded. For example, see the grey borders around most programs? In LibreOffice they can be themed to look more interesting. The university crest could be shown there on machines inside the university and students might want to show that off at home or other places too. * Organisations, such as Universities, sometimes find they use software in an unusual way and want to have more control over the coding work, or they find a bug-report that they feel is urgent but no-one else is really affected by it. With proprietary software, such as MS Office, they are stuck. With OpenSource software, such as LibreOffice, they could employ someone locally or a local company to work on a specific problem. By permanently employing, probably part-time, a developer they have more control over the issues that get worked on. Many organisations employ people to work on different aspects of LibreOffice. Often it is to work on the programs coding directly as "developers". For example Redhat employee developers and donate a lot of their time to LibreOffice as a whole but when Redhat need something specific done they can rely on that getting done. Of course openSuSE benefits from the work of Redhat employees but their employees are also working on it so Redhat benefits from the work done by openSuSE employees too. There are a lot of companies, universities, even government departments in various countries who work on LibreOffice together in this way. So, while LibreOffice is free the more important thing about it is that the University can have more control over it than they could have over proprietary alternatives. By the way this mailing list is really meant for User Support / Technical Support and not really for sales. Also the general public use this list to help people with any question they might have about LibreOffice. So none of the opinions (or even facts quoted) on this mailing list are necessarily reflecting the views of "The Document Foundation" or the views of anyone officially working on LibreOffice. You might even spot one or 2 sulky individuals trying to undermine LibreOffice and OpenSource in general. However, we try to solve most things here and if we can't solve it then we can usually "sign-post" people to the correct mailing lists or sources of information. In your case you might want to talk to our marketing team market...@global.libreoffice.org Subscribe to them in the same way you subscribed to the Users List. Once you have done that it might be wise to unsubscribe from the Users List because this list is very high-traffic. For large scale "migrations" from MS Office to LibreOffice please can i recommend you get in contact with our marketing team but also please get in contact with the "Free Software Foundation". Preferably get them to give you a regular advisor (it's probably a free service or if they do charge it should be well worth it). http The general advice is usually to keep the existing versions of MS Office but install LibreOffice alongside it so that people can choose which they want to work with. Newer machines and refurbishments can increasingly focus on just LibreOffice. There is no reason to get rid of old versions of MS Office to start with. Microsoft like to try to push people into getting rid of their existing versions in order to force people to use unfamiliar tools. If those unfamiliar tools are non-MS then there is usually a strong push to spend loads of money buying the newer version of MS Office but again that is so unfamiliar to people that they need retraining. Microsoft makes quite a lot of money from certifying trainers to be qualified to retrain users in the use of their newer products. So, the better option is to keep the existing versions of MS Office and gently encourage people to get more and more familiar with LibreOffice/OpenOffice but allow them to use the existing MS Office to meet tight deadlines until they begin to find it is actually easier for them to meet those deadlines with LibreOffice. So the quick answer is that LibreOffice is free but you might choose to reinvest some of the savings in order to get even more value out of it. Regards from Tom Davies ----- Original Message ----- From: Kumar <ku...@statwks.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Sent: Monday, 7 October 2013, 2:43 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office Multilingual software Dear Sales , Please email us the pricing for Libre Office Multilingual software . This is required by one of the University in Malaysia. Looking forward to hear from you . 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