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Our office is standardized on Firefox and IT has emailed everyone about OpenOffice a couple times as a free alternative (that we do support). Plus, those of us doing development can choose our tools (I use vim, coworkers use Notepad++, and so on)Izkata– Izkata2011-11-23 01:00:13 +00:00Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 1:00
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We use Eclipse, Notepad++, XMing, Putty, Oracle SQL Developer, and some other free/open solutions that don't come to mind at the moment here at work. Company is 2000-3000 employees and around a billion in revenue.rlperez– rlperez2011-11-23 02:46:43 +00:00Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 2:46
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"I do not know any (medium-big) company that does this" - companies that donate or release open source software (both spend resourced on open source)? Or companies that have a mainly or solely OSS IT policy?Merlyn Morgan-Graham– Merlyn Morgan-Graham2011-11-24 00:41:40 +00:00Commented Nov 24, 2011 at 0:41
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1Be careful that many open source software projects are not free to use, especially not for a business. On the other hand, I wholly support using FOSS as much as possible/useful in business situations.jv42– jv422011-11-24 15:33:50 +00:00Commented Nov 24, 2011 at 15:33
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