Comments on: Microsoft Assimilation and Government Contracts http://techrights.org/2008/05/21/foss-odf-assimilation-contract/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fernando Cassia http://techrights.org/2008/05/21/foss-odf-assimilation-contract/comment-page-1/#comment-12837 Fernando Cassia Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:48:02 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/21/foss-odf-assimilation-contract/#comment-12837 Thanks for mentioning and linking to my article wrt Corel´s Office Suite. One point that should be made is that opening the code doesn´t mean "stop charging for it". Commercial entities LIKE to pay to get support and have "someone to shout to" in case things go wrong. In short: Corel opening its office suite won´t stop legal firms from buying Corel Wordperfect in a boxed version, with paid tech support and fixes. In fact, RedHat is a good example of a business built on top of open source code. And corporations continue shelling out big $$$ for Red Hat Server, despite the fact that there´s "free" community-supported versions in the form of CentOS. FC Thanks for mentioning and linking to my article wrt Corel´s Office Suite.

One point that should be made is that opening the code doesn´t mean “stop charging for it”. Commercial entities LIKE to pay to get support and have “someone to shout to” in case things go wrong.

In short: Corel opening its office suite won´t stop legal firms from buying Corel Wordperfect in a boxed version, with paid tech support and fixes.

In fact, RedHat is a good example of a business built on top of open source code. And corporations continue shelling out big $$$ for Red Hat Server, despite the fact that there´s “free” community-supported versions in the form of CentOS.

FC

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