[Gllug] Voluntary work

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Thu 13 Nov, Jason Clifford bloviated thus:

> Copyright infringement as part of a commercial concern is a criminal 
> offence. Perhaps the trustees of the charity just need to be told along 
> with a note pointing out that Free Software can provide what they need 
> without draining their financial resources on license fees and higher TCO.

This is a strategy just ripe for MS to match and make themselves look
good.  All they have to do is "donate" their software to charities,
they get the lock-in they want and get to write off the "donation" as
a tax deduction.

It's worth using the many other reasons for free software with these
people.

A good start is Danny Yee's paper, Development, Ethical Trading, and
Free Software:
http://danny.oz.au/freedom/ip/aidfs.html

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Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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