He or she means "free" as in beer. In other words, just because the Open Source software doesn't cost any money to buy it doesn't mean it doesn't cost a company money to support, which is very true. Hence why I advocate that businesses look into a support partner of some kind for support escalations.<br>
<br>The good news, however, is that in general that kind of support is very reasonable, and from a total cost of ownership perspective in almost any scenario Free software solutions will be cheaper overall.<br><br>Jeffrey.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Luke Dashjr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tuesday 04 November 2008 02:20:44 pm Haworth, Michael A. wrote:<br>
> I am also enjoying the turn in directions to the licensing side because<br>
> that is what our current licensing vendor mention when she caught wind that<br>
> we were thinking of using OS for some things - got the terse email<br>
> regarding 'hidden clauses' in the Linux licensing and that OS software<br>
> isn't really 'free' because it isn't supported...<br>
<br>
</div>What does support have to do with freedom?<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine<br>