On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de>wrote:
> > We don't warrant AOO in any case...we provide it as-is. > > However, we can > > state that binaries people download from AOO sites are built from AOO > > source and don't contain anything else; we can't guarantee > > that for copies > > from any place else. > > Possible. But why should we do that _explicitly_? > > If, this point really matter then he should be in the license, it is, > however, > only marginally important, we should not especially mention it because to > "guarantee" also includes a legal aspect. > > A legally effective promise we can not keep, is rather bad for our > reputation, so > it is better to promise less and deliver more than to promise more and > keep less. > > No, no misunderstanding, I'm sure the binaries coming from the Apache > pages, 99.9% > sure are (likely to 99.99999 ...) but not 100%, and why should we do so as > if our > server are invulnerable? > > We make that statement on kind of a regular basis. There are people who email the list, either directly or through the web form, saying, "AOO installed a toolbar!", "AOO installed bloatware!", "AOO installed a virus!", etc. Our routine answer to this is that, no, AOO downloaded from AOO sites doesn't install any of those things; if it did, they didn't get it from us. Don
