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Henrik Martensson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 14:21, Fredrik Lindgren wrote: > >>I wonder if there is a business case for setting up a company reselling >>free software to get around sceptical management. I mean, without changing >>or really supporting the actual software, just charging for it. ;-). > > > I definitely think so. Some managers great difficulty understanding that > free software can be any good, or even that software can be free. > > The company where I work spends a lot of money on MS Office licences > that we don't utilize very well. I tried to get a manager interested in > OpenOffice, but made the mistake of telling him that it was Opensource. <snip/> > > At that point I gave up. Perhaps I would have had greater success if I > had told him about StarOffice, perhaps not. At least, he would not have > confused an office suite with an operating system. I don't know if decision makers view the software as inferior or if it is the religious nature of OS proponents. I tend to avoid talking about about OS because I have noticed the eyes rolling back when the subject is brought up (for those that even know OS exists...). I think they see Open Source folk as people who, by their nature, look out for something other than the decision maker's best interest. best, -Rob, who use many OS apps and provides a proprietary UI for clients... > > /Henrik Mårtensson
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