Dear All, I am not sure if this is the right place to send this, but I thought it important that you were notified of a company that charges a lot more than the postage and packaging for Open Office.
I signed up with CD Earth from their website to order a pack of 4 CD's (all open source software) at a stated price of $5.95 for the pack. The company sent these through to me, although they did not say so on the site the software was open-source (indeed they made it seem as if it was all commercial software). The company then billed an extra $23.99 for no apparent reason (I found our later that the CDs were $5.95 each, again not displayed on their website. They then sent me four more CDs (unasked for) which they were going to charge me $14.99 for each CD). I have endless trouble cancelling this and as they have my credit card number they have the upper-hand. Just to let you know. The company is CD Earth at www.cdearth.com I think this exploitation of open source software is shameful. Chris May Utter Press Ireland
