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Open Source Sponsoring

Jeremy has a great question, Which Open Source Projects Would You Sponsor? for yourself and your company. At work if there was anything like a good CRM, think ACT on steroids, it would be a good donation investment. Personally getting more OpenSource with native OS support, like OpenOffice, AbiWord, GIMP, etc on OSX, outside of Xwindoes, would rock.

2 replies on “Open Source Sponsoring”

WOuldn’t it be better to support projects like Wine, Cygwin, Xfree, etc? That way the propietary/commercial (but good) apps like Act, Goldmine, etc can run on non-win32 systems. Still have to pay for the application’s license, but not the crazy licensing for Windows/Office/etc.

Only if the operating system is an option, which it is not at work. I have tried, it just ain’t going to happen. The application, especially where we don’t have a deployed solution, is the place to introduce more open systems.

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Categories
Apple

Open Source Sponsoring

Jeremy has a great question, Which Open Source Projects Would You Sponsor? for yourself and your company. At work if there was anything like a good CRM, think ACT on steroids, it would be a good donation investment. Personally getting more OpenSource with native OS support, like OpenOffice, AbiWord, GIMP, etc on OSX, outside of Xwindoes, would rock.

2 replies on “Open Source Sponsoring”

WOuldn’t it be better to support projects like Wine, Cygwin, Xfree, etc? That way the propietary/commercial (but good) apps like Act, Goldmine, etc can run on non-win32 systems. Still have to pay for the application’s license, but not the crazy licensing for Windows/Office/etc.

Only if the operating system is an option, which it is not at work. I have tried, it just ain’t going to happen. The application, especially where we don’t have a deployed solution, is the place to introduce more open systems.

Comments are closed.