Hi Michael,
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:27:31 +0100
Chris Monahan wrote:
First of all this site is AFAIK flogging exactly the same stuff as you
can dload from openoffice.org, if not worse since it's probably an
older version
So are all these distributors.
But this website doesn't acknowledge the makers of openoffice, or
satisfy any of the source code requirements of the LGPL (assuming that
they are the same as the GPL) not to mention probably a trading
standards violation (they promise 100% MSO compatibility). The site is
probably ilegal in some way.
Not to mention it does harm to the openoffice name for these kindof
con-artists to be operating.
Some of the distributors do charge more than reasonable. But anyone
selling does have the right to charge for the copying, blank disc, and
freight. Not only that but i beleive people are quite free under the
licence to charge others for the program itself. Freedom in Open Source
Software refers more to the freedom to alter the source code yourself
than to free price.
I would understand paying money for CDs or shipping costs, but they seem
to offer the download for 12 bucks. I wonder how you can justify that
for a service that you get for free on www.openoffice.org.
-Bjoern
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