GPL and Python modules.

Cliff Wells clifford.wells at comcast.net
Mon Oct 25 17:04:46 EDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 20:52 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> It's not really that.  The situation is more like:
> 
>  Customer orders A.
>  Customer pays for A.
>  Customer needs support for A.
>  Customer gets support for A.
> 
> No problem, so far. 
> 
>  You give customer some GPL software B along with written
>  statement that free support is not provided for B.
>  
>  Customer want's help with B.
> 
> Sales is _not_ going to let you tell Customer that you don't
> provide support for B. 

You *do* provide support for B.  Just not *free* support.  Win-win ;) 

Somehow I find your company sales department's failure to abide by your
own company's written agreements to be a somewhat less than convincing
argument against open source <wink>.

Regards,
Cliff

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Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net>




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