On 23 December 2012 18:43, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 12/22/2012 03:46 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Well failing other proposals/solutions, this might be a good idea. Is this > implemented at the web server setup level or ???? I'm not familiar with > this. Can this be done with a config file that we maintain so as not to > overburden the infrastructure folks?
There are surely many ways of doing it. One way is the send all file request through a jscript. We would need intra once, to change the apache setup (e.g. .exe => redirect to jscript), after that we can maintain the jscript as a normal web file. jan I. > > > >> Perhaps there is something that can be done with Google to have them >> downgrade search terms for OpenOffice for specific URLs. >> >> Regards, Dave >> >> > -- > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ > MzK > > "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." > -- Aesop >
