Hi, I think kids need to be educated and re educated and educated ... on what is trademark and what they can use and develop and make it a part of their livelihood honestly. And the bottom lines are - do they have to pay somebody - If they do I think they can understand a straightforward yes or no. And maybe's too. This unfortunately has not been so transparent. I see that the link at us site leads to a common site for genuine downloads. After reading this post by dave do I have to inform my contacts to be waey of the US site. Sorry I cannot - The forum and the community there has been immensely useful building up on the concepts of using our machines. And has there been brilliant solutions contributed by users! With the advent of powerful mobile computing - I would not be surprised and even expect independentt stand alone - yet modules such as a spreadsheet, text, pictures processing, sound, and who knows even smell and chemistry (blood types) and wind monitoring and computing. Office software has been great that it offered a one source to be able to do a number of things. But very high efficiency is achieved if use it along with components that do a better job/or are more convenirnt. For example Gimp is sometimes easier for pictures. And if you want to OCR the text Tesseract is good. And this is "patching" up. I think there is need to try to "patch" up . Anyway since the world has not ended and even if it has Best wishes, Merry Christamas, Happy 2013 Namaste Shalom. ...salam ...keep frowning - (that brings out smiles)
<dave2w...@comcast.net> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; market...@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 5:16 AM Subject: [DISCUSS] Recourse for Sites Which Do Not Acknowledge Trademarks One of the ways that sites that offer downloads of Apache OpenOffice (or OpenOffice.org) often do is:(1) Don't acknowledge that the trademarks are the Apache Software Foundation's.(2) Make use of the project's and ASF's resources to offer free support and other downloads.They simply hide as legitimate sites. One example is openoffice.us.com.One thing that we can do to get in the way of this is keep a list of these domains and when web requests are referred from them we can take users to a warning page where we can explain the situation, help users get to legitimate resources and let these providers know how to properly reference trademarks and make their offering distinct from Apache OpenOffice.Perhaps there is something that can be done with Google to have them downgrade search terms for OpenOffice for specific URLs.Regards,Dave
