Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 30, 2016 6:39 UTC (Wed) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by gdt
Parent article: Quotes of the week

I, too, was reminded of the old total-cost-of-ownership marketing by Microsoft and other unfree software vendors.

But Ben Cotton makes another point: /maintaining/ free software has direct financial costs, and, like buying a helmet for your volunteer fire duty, should give you tax benefits.

The quote did not transport this well, but IMO the „free as in puppy“ should be scrapped altogether. Even if it did not stem from antagonistic marketing, it still evokes „free as in {beer,freedom}“, which both talk about costs to the /user/, not the maintainer.