Re: Sam's is selling Open Office

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

On 19 Apr 2003, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 20:32, Nate Reindl wrote:
> > Office suites, however, always carried with them the need for payment or
> > an obscure license.
> 
> Maybe, but in my experience when you offer folks a choice between paying
> for something and downloading it for free, they hardly ever reach for
> their wallets. Particularly if multiple copies are needed.

Home users, yes.  This isn't quite so true, in my experience, with people 
needing to do work with their products.  Too many people think 
free==shareware, and we all know that shareware != good.  

People are scared. Paying for something makes them feel better sometimes, 
because they have someone to yell at when they find out their still 
incompetant despite the new product :-)

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