Comments on: Proprietary Software Credits. Go BLUE http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/03/proprietary-software-credits-go-blue/ Open Source Governance, Scanning, Support, and Cloud Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brad Reeves http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/03/proprietary-software-credits-go-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-92377 Brad Reeves Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:54:04 +0000 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/03/proprietary-software-credits-go-blue/#comment-92377 Brian - Excellent question. While the credits only pertain to the software at this time, there may be a way to offer additional incentives to those that use more "open" hardware, or vendors that are more "Blue" than others. Dell has a Ubuntu option. ( http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn ) , so Dell has a blue -er footprint than say... Microsoft. Once I get the Proprietary Software Credit program running I will fully investigate it's analog on the hardware side. Brad Brian -

Excellent question. While the credits only pertain to the software at this time, there may be a way to offer additional incentives to those that use more “open” hardware, or vendors that are more “Blue” than others. Dell has a Ubuntu option. ( http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn ) , so Dell has a blue -er footprint than say… Microsoft. Once I get the Proprietary Software Credit program running I will fully investigate it’s analog on the hardware side.

Brad

]]> By: Bryan Noll http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/03/proprietary-software-credits-go-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-92374 Bryan Noll Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:45:41 +0000 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/03/proprietary-software-credits-go-blue/#comment-92374 Does a similar plan exist for those of us using closed-source hardware? I've got a dell laptop, mouse and monitor and a Microsoft keyboard. What do I owe for that? Do I get a discount since I'm using Ubuntu instead of Windows and Eclipse intead of IntelliJ? Does a similar plan exist for those of us using closed-source hardware? I’ve got a dell laptop, mouse and monitor and a Microsoft keyboard.

What do I owe for that?

Do I get a discount since I’m using Ubuntu instead of Windows and Eclipse intead of IntelliJ?

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