[olug] Oracle is charging $90 for M$ ODF Plguin

[Aaron Keck]

 If adobe charged $5 for every flash plugin install,* the world would be a
better place... *Fixed that for you.
*
*
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Jon Larsen <relayer at levania.org> wrote:

> I always carry the sun odf plugin with me on a flash key and usually
> install it on any machine I work on.  If you need it, let me know and I'll
> get it to you.
>
> I might understand if the $90 was for Enterprise users of 500 or more
> users, and free for non-commercial/personal use.  But, jeez, it's a plugin.
>  If adobe charged $5 for every flash plugin install, there would never have
> been a youtube.
>
>
>
> On 04/20/2010 05:27 PM, Chad Homan wrote:
>
>> I really enjoyed the talk Adam gave on ODF and OpenOffice.  But this
>> caught
>> my attention while checking out
>> osnews.com today. Not really surprised but this will not help anyone
>> trying
>> to talk people, friends and family to
>> ODF. Verified it here:
>> http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp
>>
>> Oracle Starts Charging 90 USD Per User for ODF
>> Plugin<
>> http://www.osnews.com/story/23181/Oracle_Starts_Charging_90_USD_Per_User_for_ODF_Plugin
>> >
>>  Linked by Thom Holwerda<http://www.osnews.com/editor/11>  on Tue 20th
>> Apr
>> 2010 20:24 UTC, submitted by Governa<http://www.osnews.com/user/Governa/>
>>  [image: SUN Microsystems]<http://www.osnews.com/topics/7>  When Oracle
>> announced its intentions to buy Sun Microsystems, many were worried about
>> the future of Sun's large open source software portfolio, which includes
>> things like Solaris, Java, MySQL, and more. It seems like Oracle is still
>> struggling<http://www.osnews.com/comments/23163>  with what to do with
>> the
>> large body of products Sun entails; they've started charging 90 USD
>> per user<
>> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-start-charging-for-Sun-s-Office-ODF-plug-in-981132.html
>> >for
>> the Microsoft
>> Office ODF plugin<http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp>.
>>  [image: E-mail]<
>> http://www.osnews.com/share/23181/Oracle_Starts_Charging_90_USD_Per_User_for_ODF_Plugin
>> >
>>
>> Chad, CISSP
>>
>
>
>
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