The professional working group of the association of free software users Aful this week announced the creation of a brand: Offer free . It must allow buyers company distinguish the truly free offers Open Source solutions market. And provide a competitive advantage to suppliers that adopt free.
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Drowned in the ecosystem Open Source
A gap between the rhetoric on the Free Software / Open Source and the reality of commercial offers is the origin of creation Brand Offer Free. “Increasingly many companies that present themselves as being in the open source ecosystem to their prospects or customers and benefit from the good image of this movement” , with DSI particular, explains in drafting President Aful, Laurent Seguin . “Unfortunately, an increasing number of these companies deliver to their clients the software ‘based free” with high value-added code (which is the whole point of the solution) but not free. The final product, used by the customer, is not free “, he said.
Laurent Seguin had alerted the press in 2013 about the constraints of commercial offers” freemium “or” hybrid “excluding users of value co-creation ecosystem. Today clients rarely integrate the effects induced by a free license in their selection process, observe Aful. And responsible vendors of basic freedoms of free software (use, copy, study, modify / redistribute software) are embedded in them.
A competitive advantage, but at what price?
Aful, which represents the software freedom, wishes to make guarantees to users and give more visibility to suppliers whose offer Free trade has been stamped offer or an offering respect “the letter and the spirit of free software.” Free, certainly, but not free … Permission to use the trademark of the association is restricted to suppliers whose offer has been revised / validated by him. An application form is provided.
The trial of a first application (for a specific offer) is free for members Aful in the financial year of the association ( January 1 to December 31), the following are billed 50 euros . Organizations (companies, foundations, associations, etc.) will have to pay non 200 euros per instruction. Only criteria related to software freedom in a professional setting are checked, not the quality of the service provided
Loans providers to adopt Offer free
“Professional members Aful ( ENL, ESNL, customers ) were involved from the genesis of this project. The action Offer Free is a consensus of all of their ideas, comments and expectations “ says Laurent Seguin. “Several other suppliers Royalty businesses, not members of the Aful, affirmed their support for the initiative and started the procedures for the use of our brand authorization” , t- ensures it. “The bulk of the work will be to install this brand over time and especially to ensure that it is demanded by customers in their discussions with their suppliers’ .
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