User: jpmcc Date: 2008-10-22 11:56:59+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Wed Oct 22 13:00:14 BST 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1067&r2=1.1068 Delta lines: +41 -38 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-10-22 05:56:48+0000 1.1067 +++ atom.xml 2008-10-22 11:56:56+0000 1.1068 @@ -5,9 +5,39 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-10-22T06:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:30+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Beware of the para-sites</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=593</id> + <updated>2008-10-22T08:58:50+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>One of the side effects of the huge popularity of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> is a growth in the number of para-sites - sites which look like official OpenOffice.org sites, but actually have nothing to do with the OpenOffice.org project.</p> +<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/searchresults.png"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-594" title="Search Results" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/searchresults.png" alt="" width="150" height="76" /></a><br /> +This is how it works. A company builds a plausible looking website which could easily be taken for an official OpenOffice.org site. It then pays search engines, so that when people search for e.g. &#8216;Open Office 3&#8242;, its site appears at the top of the search results (as a sponsored link).</p> +<p>Visitors to the site are then lured into making a payment (or worse still, signing up to regular payments) in exchange for a download link, or a promise of an email with a link to a download site.</p> +<p>At best, the gullible customer receives a genuine current copy of OpenOffice.org 3.0 - which they could have downloaded for free from <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">the official OpenOffice.org download site</a>. At worst, they receive nothing, and spend months trying to get a regular payment cancelled from their credit card.</p> +<p>OpenOffice.org is open-source software, so it is quite permissible to sell it, and we do encourage genuine companies to <a href="http://why.openoffice.org/why_oem.html">build business models around the software</a> (and we appreciate those that contribute back to the community). However, we know from regular emails and phone calls that there a lot of unhappy customers of these &#8216;para-sites&#8217;. What can we do?</p> +<ul> +<li>we can prevent people using our registered trademark, OpenOffice.org</li> +<li>we can encourage people to report clealry fraudulent sites to consumer protection agencies in their countries</li> +</ul> +<p>Search engines are well aware this is going on, but are unwilling to do anything about it - even those which claim to be active proponents of open-source.</p> +<p>However, it is worth remembering that every time someone clicks on one of these search engine links, it costs the advertisers money. There are millions of enthusiastic OpenOffice.org users out there - a few clicks each every day would soon drive the para-sites out of business.</p></content> + <author> + <name>John McCreesh</name> + <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">Liberty / Community and Málaga 2008: OSWC</title> <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2008/10/liberty-community-and-mlaga-2008-oswc.html"/> @@ -161,7 +191,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-20T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -185,7 +215,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-20T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -205,7 +235,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-20T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -251,7 +281,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-20T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -271,7 +301,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-22T06:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -292,7 +322,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-20T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -387,7 +417,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-20T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -407,7 +437,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-22T06:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -427,7 +457,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-22T06:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -495,34 +525,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-20T12:00:15+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Excuse me, youâre overloading our servers</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/14/excuse-me-youre-overloading-our-servers/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=577</id> - <updated>2008-10-14T18:44:13+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>A report from the Collabnet staff who run our web infrastructure, explaining why the OpenOffice.org site has been down since <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/OOo/3/prweb1459364.htm">we announced OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> at 09:00 UTC yesterday:</p> -<blockquote><p>* the site caching mechanism was knocked out on Monday by an unprecedented volume of page hits</p> -<p>* efforts to bring the caching mechanism back to life have failed</p> -<p>* the demand on the pages most frequently accessed by users is still too great for the servers to cope with without caching</p> -<p>* the most demanded pages (the home page, the download page, the main native-language pages) are being redirected to a static emergency page</p> -<p>* until caching is working again, the page hits will be monitored and one page after another will be gradually made available</p></blockquote> -<p>Email from a journalist reporting on the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a></p> -<blockquote><p>Congratulations on the launch by the way, it&#8217;s a great piece of software. And look on the bright side, you&#8217;ve now joined Mozilla and Apple in the great hall of folks who&#8217;s products have proved too popular for the servers.</p></blockquote> -<p>To see what other reviewers make of the new release, please read <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html">our reviews page</a> (when the site comes back up) - and no, we haven&#8217;t just chosen the good ones <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></content> - <author> - <name>John McCreesh</name> - <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-10-20T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-22T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1067&r2=1.1068 Delta lines: +27 -23 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-10-22 05:56:48+0000 1.1067 +++ index.html 2008-10-22 11:56:56+0000 1.1068 @@ -34,8 +34,34 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: October 22, 2008 06:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: October 22, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>October 22, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> +John McCreesh</a> : +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/";> +Beware of the para-sites</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>One of the side effects of the huge popularity of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product";>OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> is a growth in the number of para-sites - sites which look like official OpenOffice.org sites, but actually have nothing to do with the OpenOffice.org project.</p> +<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/searchresults.png";><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-594" title="Search Results" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/searchresults.png"; alt="" width="150" height="76" /></a><br /> +This is how it works. A company builds a plausible looking website which could easily be taken for an official OpenOffice.org site. It then pays search engines, so that when people search for e.g. ‘Open Office 3′, its site appears at the top of the search results (as a sponsored link).</p> +<p>Visitors to the site are then lured into making a payment (or worse still, signing up to regular payments) in exchange for a download link, or a promise of an email with a link to a download site.</p> +<p>At best, the gullible customer receives a genuine current copy of OpenOffice.org 3.0 - which they could have downloaded for free from <a href="http://download.openoffice.org";>the official OpenOffice.org download site</a>. At worst, they receive nothing, and spend months trying to get a regular payment cancelled from their credit card.</p> +<p>OpenOffice.org is open-source software, so it is quite permissible to sell it, and we do encourage genuine companies to <a href="http://why.openoffice.org/why_oem.html";>build business models around the software</a> (and we appreciate those that contribute back to the community). However, we know from regular emails and phone calls that there a lot of unhappy customers of these ‘para-sites’. What can we do?</p> +<ul> +<li>we can prevent people using our registered trademark, OpenOffice.org</li> +<li>we can encourage people to report clealry fraudulent sites to consumer protection agencies in their countries</li> +</ul> +<p>Search engines are well aware this is going on, but are unwilling to do anything about it - even those which claim to be active proponents of open-source.</p> +<p>However, it is worth remembering that every time someone clicks on one of these search engine links, it costs the advertisers money. There are millions of enthusiastic OpenOffice.org users out there - a few clicks each every day would soon drive the para-sites out of business.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/";>by John at October 22, 2008 08:58 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>October 21, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> @@ -435,28 +461,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> -John McCreesh</a> : -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/14/excuse-me-youre-overloading-our-servers/";> -Excuse me, youâre overloading our servers</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>A report from the Collabnet staff who run our web infrastructure, explaining why the OpenOffice.org site has been down since <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/OOo/3/prweb1459364.htm";>we announced OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> at 09:00 UTC yesterday:</p> -<blockquote><p>* the site caching mechanism was knocked out on Monday by an unprecedented volume of page hits</p> -<p>* efforts to bring the caching mechanism back to life have failed</p> -<p>* the demand on the pages most frequently accessed by users is still too great for the servers to cope with without caching</p> -<p>* the most demanded pages (the home page, the download page, the main native-language pages) are being redirected to a static emergency page</p> -<p>* until caching is working again, the page hits will be monitored and one page after another will be gradually made available</p></blockquote> -<p>Email from a journalist reporting on the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org 3.0</a></p> -<blockquote><p>Congratulations on the launch by the way, it’s a great piece of software. And look on the bright side, you’ve now joined Mozilla and Apple in the great hall of folks who’s products have proved too popular for the servers.</p></blockquote> -<p>To see what other reviewers make of the new release, please read <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html";>our reviews page</a> (when the site comes back up) - and no, we haven’t just chosen the good ones <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif"; alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/14/excuse-me-youre-overloading-our-servers/";>by John at October 14, 2008 06:44 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.1067&r2=1.1068 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-10-22 05:56:49+0000 1.1067 +++ opml.xml 2008-10-22 11:56:56+0000 1.1068 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:00:24 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:00:31 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.493&r2=1.494 Delta lines: +18 -15 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-10-21 23:57:50+0000 1.493 +++ rss10.xml 2008-10-22 11:56:56+0000 1.494 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=593"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4908051713461340498" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=489"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/20/the-speech/"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,27 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-3439386951479527014" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=488"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=578"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=577"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=593";> + <title>John McCreesh: Beware of the para-sites</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/</link> + <content:encoded><p>One of the side effects of the huge popularity of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> is a growth in the number of para-sites - sites which look like official OpenOffice.org sites, but actually have nothing to do with the OpenOffice.org project.</p> +<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/searchresults.png"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-594" title="Search Results" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/searchresults.png" alt="" width="150" height="76" /></a><br /> +This is how it works. A company builds a plausible looking website which could easily be taken for an official OpenOffice.org site. It then pays search engines, so that when people search for e.g. &#8216;Open Office 3&#8242;, its site appears at the top of the search results (as a sponsored link).</p> +<p>Visitors to the site are then lured into making a payment (or worse still, signing up to regular payments) in exchange for a download link, or a promise of an email with a link to a download site.</p> +<p>At best, the gullible customer receives a genuine current copy of OpenOffice.org 3.0 - which they could have downloaded for free from <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">the official OpenOffice.org download site</a>. At worst, they receive nothing, and spend months trying to get a regular payment cancelled from their credit card.</p> +<p>OpenOffice.org is open-source software, so it is quite permissible to sell it, and we do encourage genuine companies to <a href="http://why.openoffice.org/why_oem.html">build business models around the software</a> (and we appreciate those that contribute back to the community). However, we know from regular emails and phone calls that there a lot of unhappy customers of these &#8216;para-sites&#8217;. What can we do?</p> +<ul> +<li>we can prevent people using our registered trademark, OpenOffice.org</li> +<li>we can encourage people to report clealry fraudulent sites to consumer protection agencies in their countries</li> +</ul> +<p>Search engines are well aware this is going on, but are unwilling to do anything about it - even those which claim to be active proponents of open-source.</p> +<p>However, it is worth remembering that every time someone clicks on one of these search engine links, it costs the advertisers money. There are millions of enthusiastic OpenOffice.org users out there - a few clicks each every day would soon drive the para-sites out of business.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-10-22T08:58:50+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4908051713461340498"> <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Liberty / Community and Málaga 2008: OSWC</title> <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2008/10/liberty-community-and-mlaga-2008-oswc.html</link> @@ -281,19 +298,5 @@ <p>In anybody&#8217;s books, that&#8217;s a successful launch for a mature software product!</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-10-14T20:28:40+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=577";> - <title>John McCreesh: Excuse me, youâre overloading our servers</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/14/excuse-me-youre-overloading-our-servers/</link> - <content:encoded><p>A report from the Collabnet staff who run our web infrastructure, explaining why the OpenOffice.org site has been down since <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/OOo/3/prweb1459364.htm">we announced OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> at 09:00 UTC yesterday:</p> -<blockquote><p>* the site caching mechanism was knocked out on Monday by an unprecedented volume of page hits</p> -<p>* efforts to bring the caching mechanism back to life have failed</p> -<p>* the demand on the pages most frequently accessed by users is still too great for the servers to cope with without caching</p> -<p>* the most demanded pages (the home page, the download page, the main native-language pages) are being redirected to a static emergency page</p> -<p>* until caching is working again, the page hits will be monitored and one page after another will be gradually made available</p></blockquote> -<p>Email from a journalist reporting on the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a></p> -<blockquote><p>Congratulations on the launch by the way, it&#8217;s a great piece of software. And look on the bright side, you&#8217;ve now joined Mozilla and Apple in the great hall of folks who&#8217;s products have proved too popular for the servers.</p></blockquote> -<p>To see what other reviewers make of the new release, please read <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html">our reviews page</a> (when the site comes back up) - and no, we haven&#8217;t just chosen the good ones <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-10-14T18:44:13+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.493&r2=1.494 Delta lines: +18 -15 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-10-21 23:57:50+0000 1.493 +++ rss20.xml 2008-10-22 11:56:56+0000 1.494 @@ -8,6 +8,24 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>John McCreesh: Beware of the para-sites</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=593</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/</link> + <description><p>One of the side effects of the huge popularity of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> is a growth in the number of para-sites - sites which look like official OpenOffice.org sites, but actually have nothing to do with the OpenOffice.org project.</p> +<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/searchresults.png"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-594" title="Search Results" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/searchresults.png" alt="" width="150" height="76" /></a><br /> +This is how it works. A company builds a plausible looking website which could easily be taken for an official OpenOffice.org site. It then pays search engines, so that when people search for e.g. &#8216;Open Office 3&#8242;, its site appears at the top of the search results (as a sponsored link).</p> +<p>Visitors to the site are then lured into making a payment (or worse still, signing up to regular payments) in exchange for a download link, or a promise of an email with a link to a download site.</p> +<p>At best, the gullible customer receives a genuine current copy of OpenOffice.org 3.0 - which they could have downloaded for free from <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">the official OpenOffice.org download site</a>. At worst, they receive nothing, and spend months trying to get a regular payment cancelled from their credit card.</p> +<p>OpenOffice.org is open-source software, so it is quite permissible to sell it, and we do encourage genuine companies to <a href="http://why.openoffice.org/why_oem.html">build business models around the software</a> (and we appreciate those that contribute back to the community). However, we know from regular emails and phone calls that there a lot of unhappy customers of these &#8216;para-sites&#8217;. What can we do?</p> +<ul> +<li>we can prevent people using our registered trademark, OpenOffice.org</li> +<li>we can encourage people to report clealry fraudulent sites to consumer protection agencies in their countries</li> +</ul> +<p>Search engines are well aware this is going on, but are unwilling to do anything about it - even those which claim to be active proponents of open-source.</p> +<p>However, it is worth remembering that every time someone clicks on one of these search engine links, it costs the advertisers money. There are millions of enthusiastic OpenOffice.org users out there - a few clicks each every day would soon drive the para-sites out of business.</p></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:58:50 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Liberty / Community and Málaga 2008: OSWC</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4908051713461340498</guid> <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2008/10/liberty-community-and-mlaga-2008-oswc.html</link> @@ -270,21 +288,6 @@ <p>In anybody&#8217;s books, that&#8217;s a successful launch for a mature software product!</p></description> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:28:40 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>John McCreesh: Excuse me, youâre overloading our servers</title> - <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=577</guid> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/14/excuse-me-youre-overloading-our-servers/</link> - <description><p>A report from the Collabnet staff who run our web infrastructure, explaining why the OpenOffice.org site has been down since <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/OOo/3/prweb1459364.htm">we announced OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> at 09:00 UTC yesterday:</p> -<blockquote><p>* the site caching mechanism was knocked out on Monday by an unprecedented volume of page hits</p> -<p>* efforts to bring the caching mechanism back to life have failed</p> -<p>* the demand on the pages most frequently accessed by users is still too great for the servers to cope with without caching</p> -<p>* the most demanded pages (the home page, the download page, the main native-language pages) are being redirected to a static emergency page</p> -<p>* until caching is working again, the page hits will be monitored and one page after another will be gradually made available</p></blockquote> -<p>Email from a journalist reporting on the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a></p> -<blockquote><p>Congratulations on the launch by the way, it&#8217;s a great piece of software. And look on the bright side, you&#8217;ve now joined Mozilla and Apple in the great hall of folks who&#8217;s products have proved too popular for the servers.</p></blockquote> -<p>To see what other reviewers make of the new release, please read <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html">our reviews page</a> (when the site comes back up) - and no, we haven&#8217;t just chosen the good ones <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:44:13 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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