On 21 December 2011 18:22, Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Pedro" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > >> >> Andrea Pescetti wrote >>> >>> >>> It does allow to sell copies, and the Free Software Foundation >>> encourages it. See >>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html >>> >> >> Thank you for the link. Interesting reading. >> >> I still can't imagine any situation or place where (in the current world) >> it >> would make sense to make a business out of selling freely available >> software... >> >> Regards, >> Pedro >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A-marketing-lesson-tp3602574p3604311.html >> Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > One possibility is that the seller provides [multi-seat] installation and/or > training for the price it charges for the software. The seller might also > offer some amount of support for the price with, perhaps, more support for > more money. > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England
There is also some money in adapting and improving Free software for the needs of particular users (e.g. businesses), if they don't object to the fact that the modifications they commission are GPLed and help other users for free. It can still be cheaper (and/or preferable in other ways) for the user than a proprietary or bespoke system. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
