I feel ya dawg. I know how it is, fo sho. Lots of my homies in da hood
don't know much about free software, but dawg, it really helped their
pimpin business, fo sho.
Scott M Stolz wrote:
Hi Kyle,
Most people are not familiar with the concept of "free" software like
OpenOffice.org What you said was fine, but it assumes knowledge of
open source software and everything that means. I decided to
elaborate a bit just in case she wasn't aware of the concepts behind
"free" software and why someone would buy a CD in the first place,
when its free on the website.
Plus I also wanted to make sure she knew that she wasn't actually
buying OpenOffice.org, she was buying the CD.
Plus, some vendors selling CDs purposely hide the fact that you can
download it for free, which I think is sneaky. Or they don't mention
that they are not selling OpenOffice.org, but rather selling a CD with
free software on it. Since I am not sure of her circumstances, I
tried to explain as much as possible.
Scott
On 2/26/06, * Kyle Korleski* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thanks for elaborating dawg. I guess I didn't state my point correctly
enough.
Scott M Stolz wrote:
> It is legal to redistibute OpenOffice.org on CDs and sell them.
> Technically a person selling such CDs is not selling you
> OpenOffice.org, but instead selling you the CD which
OpenOffice.org is
> on. Buy purchasing the CD, you are paying for the convenience of it
> being on a CD instead of you downloading it yourself and burning
it on
> your own CD (if desired). Buying a CD is useful and a good
value for
> people on dial-up where it would take forever to download it
from the
> website, or who want to install it on a computer without internet
> access, or who want the convenience of popping in a CD instead of
> downloading the whole thing for every computer they want to
install it
> on.
>
> They can't, however, claim that it is their own work when its not.
> But redistributing it is not illegal, in fact its encouraged.
>
> On 2/26/06, *Kyle Korleski * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote:
>
> Okay, let me tell you something ma'am. OpenOffice.org is a free
> piece of
> software and it should be just as legal as if you downloaded it
> straight
> from www.openoffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
<http://www.openoffice.org> or got it from
> an official distributor, am I right?
>
> JoAnn McKenzie wrote:
> > I purchased an OpenOffice CD for Mac on eBay...it is
obviously a
> > homemade copy. Is this legal?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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