On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:20 -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote: > I said I'd dig *very* deep in search of a scam, because unfortunately > those legitimate cases are very rare, IMO. I'm not talking about OOo in > particular here, because I don't know much about its distribution process > and what actually goes on with it. I think it's a much more general and > serious issue affecting our society, whereby those that scam people get > rewarded and those that don't get stepped over. > > I didn't mean to imply that selling OOo should not be allowed, but rather > that customers should be informed very clearly that it's a free product, > so that they know what they're buying (packaging, etc.).
Buyer beware! In fact the biggest difficulty is in explaining why they don't have to pay for it not asking them for a couple of dollars for a disk. Virtually everyone we talked to at NEA said "what's the catch?" That's life. We have to work to give it away, so be it. One or two less than scrupulous people will no doubt try to scam others. Selling snake oil is an old profession and it won't die out any time soon. Generally if something is to good to be true it probably is. OOo is the exception that proves the rule :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
