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By: Blog de l’Agence Infinity Com » Blog Archive » Ma petite entreprise… ou comment économiser cent mille dollars avec les logiciels libres

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:44:21 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:19:50 +0000

I’m not sure that all the estimates that are given here are correct.
But it is very good to know that you’ve saved anything at all.

The open source software is allowing people to bootstrap company in a much easier way than it used to be!

By: Richard Steven Hack

Richard Steven Hack — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:49:24 +0000

They just did give something back! Publicity! Which is probably worth more than anything else they might be able to give back if they’re not programmers or documentation writers. This post has been picked up on other sites.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:36:12 +0000

I agree with a lot of these comments. It is wonderful to see companies stating how they can use open source. How wonderful would it be if you could contribute back to the community of programmers who made this possible? A lot of people would like to see better documentation, case studies, or certain things that developers and users would like to see introduced but there are no funds for.

By: Neo

Neo — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:08:02 +0000

you can open source or you can open your wallet to Monopoly$oft and watch them empty it.

By: GreyGeeK

GreyGeeK — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:27:03 +0000

And in no way you have to upgrade just because the manufacturer released an upgrade; sometimes upgrade versions are cheaper.

So, back when you purchased Word95 you felt that it was all you’d need.

But last week, when you sent a *.doc document to one of your customers-vendors-clients-state/fed agencies, you got an email back stating that they cannot read your document in their Office 2007 Word application, nor send you a response in a format your WP could read. They’ve informed you that you’ll have to send all further correspondence to them in the Office 2007 *.docx format. They would have used the *.doc format but a recent automatic update removed that capability.

Visiting your local software vendor you discover that Office 2007 cost FOUR times as much as your Word95 app costs because you didn’t qualify for an update discount.

By: campbell barton

campbell barton — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:24:38 +0000

Hi, I find it strange that people want you to donate. Iv put a lot of my time into opensource software and dont begrudge people who earn money from features/tools I write, not do I want them to donate.
The thing I like about opensource is there are (almost) no strings attached, so people should be able to use without feeling guilty for doing well with oss.

Ofcourse, if your rolling in cash - why not donate ;),
You could contract developers to make enhancements or fixes you need. this helps the oss ecosystem too and keeps developers in touch with their users needs.

regarding not having to upgrade commercial software, ofcourse you dont have to. if it works well the way it is thats fine, but in other cases youd want to keep up to date for security reasons eg.