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Free Softwares and money

Just thinking to the last post concerning OpenOffice.org and other Free softwares at the French National Assembly : a lot of services will probably generate a lot of money around OpenOffice.org (and other quality free softwares of course), for a lot of business.

No doubt about that : even if the software is free, money is necessary for services.

But AFAIK, I read nothing saying anything will never be reversed to the developers nor to the community, and how it will.

To avoid confusion, and if some "decider" reads that, Free Softwares need money to progress. Not too much money, but enough to create, and invent.

e.g. developpers (large sense) need hardware, and - a bit of -money ( for travels and rooms e.g. , but not only) when they have to attend important developers events, or simply work in correct conditions.

How explain our Ministers and Deputies, a good idea could be to find a *real way* to reverse and contribute in return to the one doing Free Softwares ?


Keywords : profit, money, transparency

publié par ericb @ jeudi, novembre 30, 2006