but how would OpenOffice be a better solution for a business customer if it doesn't come with any support for the employees?
Your employees need support to use a word processor and spreadsheet? I think your money would be better spent hiring component people over support contracts.
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But at least the landscape at the end of the pillage will most likely still have a free Java and a free RDBMS.
There is no most likely about it. There will always be a free Java and MySQL since they were both released GPL.
Gee and that's exactly what you can do since Netbeans is GPLv2 licensed.
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Open Source means you can see, modify and redistribute changes you make to a program. Nowhere does Sun disallow you from doing any of those things with Netbeans hence it is Open Source by the OSI definition. Sure, it's a pain in the ass that one has to maintain a disparate bunch of patches if you want to do any modifying of Netbeans because Sun won't accept them but that doesn't change the fact that it is open source.
If all you're doing is handing out teeny-little torrent files and running basic text searches, your bandwidth and server costs aren't going to be very much in relation.
You don't know much about running a torrent tracker that handles millions of users at a time do you? There bandwidth costs are much more than just serving tiny torrent files and running text searches.
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but how would OpenOffice be a better solution for a business customer if it doesn't come with any support for the employees?
Your employees need support to use a word processor and spreadsheet? I think your money would be better spent hiring component people over support contracts.
But at least the landscape at the end of the pillage will most likely still have a free Java and a free RDBMS.
There is no most likely about it. There will always be a free Java and MySQL since they were both released GPL.
Gee and that's exactly what you can do since Netbeans is GPLv2 licensed.
Open Source means you can see, modify and redistribute changes you make to a program. Nowhere does Sun disallow you from doing any of those things with Netbeans hence it is Open Source by the OSI definition. Sure, it's a pain in the ass that one has to maintain a disparate bunch of patches if you want to do any modifying of Netbeans because Sun won't accept them but that doesn't change the fact that it is open source.
Because it's easier to attack someone when you take the quote you want out of its context?
If all you're doing is handing out teeny-little torrent files and running basic text searches, your bandwidth and server costs aren't going to be very much in relation.
You don't know much about running a torrent tracker that handles millions of users at a time do you? There bandwidth costs are much more than just serving tiny torrent files and running text searches.