User: jpmcc Date: 2008-11-09 00:00:30+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 Sun Nov 9 00:00:13 GMT 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1141&r2=1.1142 Delta lines: +29 -36 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-11-08 18:00:37+0000 1.1141 +++ atom.xml 2008-11-09 00:00:27+0000 1.1142 @@ -5,10 +5,33 @@ <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>2008-11-08T18:00:35+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-09T00:00:26+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Lies, damn lies, and Bouncer statistics</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=602</id> + <updated>2008-11-08T18:15:00+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/13/three-at-last/">the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> on October 13th, we&#8217;ve been carefully recording the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">number of downloads logged via the Bouncer</a> (the mechanism behind the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org download site</a> - for more details, see <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html">the FAQ</a>). We&#8217;d all been hoping that the headline counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">Marketing Planet</a> would pass the 10 million mark during the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference in Beijing</a>.</p> +<p>Well, the official business of the Conference ended yesterday, and as of midnight last night, the counter was showing 9,971,633 - so close!</p> +<p>However, all is not what it seemed. There have been some strange things happening in the logs recently, which are now being investigated. As a precaution, the reported figures have been adjusted to eliminate some unusual data. The net result is that last night&#8217;s running total has now been reduced to 9,703,282.</p> +<p>We&#8217;re not saying at this point that there has been a misguided attempt to inflate the figures. If so, it&#8217;s actually have been counterproductive, as we&#8217;ve taken a conservative approach and the figures now show a worst case number, and probably understate the true number.</p> +<p>However, we&#8217;ve taken a &#8216;better safe than sorry&#8217; view, so when we do finally pop the champagne corks for ten million, we can do so with a clear conscience!</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>2008-11-09T00:00:14+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">ODF Templates from IBM</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/905"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=905</id> @@ -100,7 +123,7 @@ <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>2008-11-03T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-09T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -174,7 +197,7 @@ <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>2008-11-03T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-09T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -221,7 +244,7 @@ <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>2008-11-03T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-09T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -358,7 +381,7 @@ <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>2008-11-03T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-09T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -460,7 +483,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-11-08T18:00:27+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-09T00:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -537,34 +560,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <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>2008-11-03T00:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1148&r2=1.1149 Delta lines: +20 -26 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-11-08 18:00:37+0000 1.1148 +++ index.html 2008-11-09 00:00:27+0000 1.1149 @@ -37,8 +37,27 @@ <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: November 08, 2008 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: November 09, 2008 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>November 08, 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/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/";> +Lies, damn lies, and Bouncer statistics</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/13/three-at-last/";>the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> on October 13th, we’ve been carefully recording the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html";>number of downloads logged via the Bouncer</a> (the mechanism behind the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org download site</a> - for more details, see <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html";>the FAQ</a>). We’d all been hoping that the headline counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/";>Marketing Planet</a> would pass the 10 million mark during the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html";>OpenOffice.org Annual Conference in Beijing</a>.</p> +<p>Well, the official business of the Conference ended yesterday, and as of midnight last night, the counter was showing 9,971,633 - so close!</p> +<p>However, all is not what it seemed. There have been some strange things happening in the logs recently, which are now being investigated. As a precaution, the reported figures have been adjusted to eliminate some unusual data. The net result is that last night’s running total has now been reduced to 9,703,282.</p> +<p>We’re not saying at this point that there has been a misguided attempt to inflate the figures. If so, it’s actually have been counterproductive, as we’ve taken a conservative approach and the figures now show a worst case number, and probably understate the true number.</p> +<p>However, we’ve taken a ‘better safe than sorry’ view, so when we do finally pop the champagne corks for ten million, we can do so with a clear conscience!</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/";>by John at November 08, 2008 06:15 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>November 06, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -486,31 +505,6 @@ <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/2008/10/22/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 /> <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=1.1141&r2=1.1142 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-11-08 18:00:38+0000 1.1141 +++ opml.xml 2008-11-09 00:00:28+0000 1.1142 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:00:35 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:27 +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=1.520&r2=1.521 Delta lines: +11 -18 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-11-07 18:00:31+0000 1.520 +++ rss10.xml 2008-11-09 00:00:28+0000 1.521 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=602"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=905"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=492"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=903"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,20 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-5810109651492029295" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=490"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3023422284292050806" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=593"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=602";> + <title>John McCreesh: Lies, damn lies, and Bouncer statistics</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/13/three-at-last/">the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> on October 13th, we&#8217;ve been carefully recording the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">number of downloads logged via the Bouncer</a> (the mechanism behind the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org download site</a> - for more details, see <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html">the FAQ</a>). We&#8217;d all been hoping that the headline counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">Marketing Planet</a> would pass the 10 million mark during the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference in Beijing</a>.</p> +<p>Well, the official business of the Conference ended yesterday, and as of midnight last night, the counter was showing 9,971,633 - so close!</p> +<p>However, all is not what it seemed. There have been some strange things happening in the logs recently, which are now being investigated. As a precaution, the reported figures have been adjusted to eliminate some unusual data. The net result is that last night&#8217;s running total has now been reduced to 9,703,282.</p> +<p>We&#8217;re not saying at this point that there has been a misguided attempt to inflate the figures. If so, it&#8217;s actually have been counterproductive, as we&#8217;ve taken a conservative approach and the figures now show a worst case number, and probably understate the true number.</p> +<p>However, we&#8217;ve taken a &#8216;better safe than sorry&#8217; view, so when we do finally pop the champagne corks for ten million, we can do so with a clear conscience!</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-11-08T18:15:00+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=905";> <title>Benjamin Horst: ODF Templates from IBM</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/905</link> @@ -321,22 +331,5 @@ <dc:date>2008-10-22T18:48:05+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> </item> -<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> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.520&r2=1.521 Delta lines: +11 -18 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-11-07 18:00:31+0000 1.520 +++ rss20.xml 2008-11-09 00:00:28+0000 1.521 @@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>John McCreesh: Lies, damn lies, and Bouncer statistics</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=602</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/</link> + <description><p>Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/13/three-at-last/">the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> on October 13th, we&#8217;ve been carefully recording the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">number of downloads logged via the Bouncer</a> (the mechanism behind the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org download site</a> - for more details, see <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html">the FAQ</a>). We&#8217;d all been hoping that the headline counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">Marketing Planet</a> would pass the 10 million mark during the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference in Beijing</a>.</p> +<p>Well, the official business of the Conference ended yesterday, and as of midnight last night, the counter was showing 9,971,633 - so close!</p> +<p>However, all is not what it seemed. There have been some strange things happening in the logs recently, which are now being investigated. As a precaution, the reported figures have been adjusted to eliminate some unusual data. The net result is that last night&#8217;s running total has now been reduced to 9,703,282.</p> +<p>We&#8217;re not saying at this point that there has been a misguided attempt to inflate the figures. If so, it&#8217;s actually have been counterproductive, as we&#8217;ve taken a conservative approach and the figures now show a worst case number, and probably understate the true number.</p> +<p>However, we&#8217;ve taken a &#8216;better safe than sorry&#8217; view, so when we do finally pop the champagne corks for ten million, we can do so with a clear conscience!</p></description> + <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: ODF Templates from IBM</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=905</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/905</link> @@ -309,24 +320,6 @@ <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:48:05 +0000</pubDate> <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (oulipo)</author> </item> -<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> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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