[Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan?

[Support Desk]

No insinuation was made, that GPL "prevents" paid support. 

There are hundreds, probably thousands of companies world
wide, whether on the NYSE, or small business operators, 
who host sites & already have Mailman installed. Anyone
who thinks they can "host" from their basement, using DSL 
or Cable, is sadly misinformed, when for a couple dollars 
a week, they can obtain 100Mb or more, and run Mailman 
and a dozen other software packages, host their site, email, 
etc, and receive "support" from the hosting provider. 

Compared to "paid" support from the big guys, which can be 
$25 or more "per incident" it's more reasonable than attempting 
a do it yourself project using a slow, unreliable connection. Anyone
willing to pay for support, should get their full money's worth, and
receive a reliable connection, bandwidth, space, software, etc. 
SD 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Basener" <dbasener at aurora.edu>
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan?


| To risk sliding into an OT area, it is not unreasonable for someone to
| offer to pay for support for an open source product.  Certainly nothing
| in the GPL prevents taking payment to provide support for a GPL
| product.  There are even some firms out there that are traded on the
| NYSE whose business is based nearly entirely on that concept.
| 
| Dave Basener
| 
| On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 07:54, Support Desk wrote:
| > 
| > Ha, ha.. This is open source, not microsloth, there is
| > no "paid" support option..
| > 
| > SD
| > 
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Steve Shultz " <sshultz at mindspring.com>
| > To: <mailman-users at python.org>
| > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 1:23 AM
| > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan?
| > 
| > 
| > | We are downloading Mailman on our Linux box. Is there paid technical
| > | support available?
| > |
| > | Steve Shultz
| > | Albany, Oregon
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