He or she means &quot;free&quot; as in beer.&nbsp; In other words, just because the Open Source software doesn&#39;t cost any money to buy it doesn&#39;t mean it doesn&#39;t cost a company money to support, which is very true.&nbsp; 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">&lt;<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>&gt;</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>
&gt; I am also enjoying the turn in directions to the licensing side because<br>
&gt; that is what our current licensing vendor mention when she caught wind that<br>
&gt; we were thinking of using OS for some things - got the terse email<br>
&gt; regarding &#39;hidden clauses&#39; in the Linux licensing and that OS software<br>
&gt; isn&#39;t really &#39;free&#39; because it isn&#39;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>&quot;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.&quot; -- Thomas Paine<br>