

Granted, it’s not an IT organization but it’s a big organization that has factories throughout the world. I currently work in the premises of a company that has 12500 people on this site alone.

I’ve done it in recent months and even thought about writing and submitting an article to OSnews about that topic. I believe in giving back to open source projects, who, as demonstrated by the shocking item about GIMP weeks ago, direly need contributions. OSS is welcome and certainly has its merits, but no software that helps me out in significant tasks should be free, in my book again. Just reading the teaser in the rss feeds in Opera, I had a very nasty thought against these hypocritical “organizations”: have you realized that the cost isn’t cited among the reasons?ītw, open source is necessarily freeware in my opinion. I think this is very candid wishful thinking.

Quick reaction before reading the linked page.
