Hi Fenny Folks,
You may be interested to study
and in particular
http://www.openadvantage.org/about/whyfree/view
which states:
Why are We Free?
Advantage West Midlands, the regional development agency have provided significant funding to OpenAdvantage and as a result everything on offer at our Solution Centre is free of charge.
The EU is adopting a positive stance in the use of Open Source and the West Midlands is taking the lead for the UK.
OpenAdvantage offer a full range of services, from consultancy, to seminars and training to enable all business's and organisations understand more, adopt and gain a business advantage from using Open Source software.
EEDA anyone?
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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