IMHO OpenOffice.org has an interest in stopping people from misrepresenting the product, since this is bad for the reputation of the program.
People will begin to associate openoffice with scam artists and support requests that never get answered. Ethically a lot of BS seems to have hit the fan over the source of 'Cheap Office Suite' it makes me cringe when they promise 'full MS office compatibility' and only '$19' when it's the same (if not worse) than what you can download from openoffice.org Legally, I think (and don't hold me to this) short of changing the license of OpenOffice, the only route available is trading standards. Which is hard to do with software, and virtually impossible over the internet... What about the LGPL? I gather that this, unlike, the GPL states that any redistributors do not have to provide source. If it was GPL these people could be taken down for not providing source. However sun also need to have the ability to resell the product in staroffice... which as far as I can gather is the situation... :-s -- Chris Monahan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
