On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:33:50 +1300, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear Sir or Madam, >> >> I am writing to tell you about a situation that occured last month >> while I was online.I wanted cheap MS office and was sent to >> www.officebestdeal.com . >> I was billed $11.95 for openoffice.org software.While I realize you are >> not responsible for the charge, I thought it may be in your interest to know >> that others are making money off of your product. >> I had signed up with openoffice.org for free in October of this >> past year.I recall your user agreement states that this was a nonprofit >> service and I could not Sell this information to anyone- well this is what >> that website is doing and I thought you should know.Please reply on this >> matter. >> >> Sincerley, >> Lee Sitterley > > >User agreement doesn't say that. OpenOffice is free to distribute and sell >to anyone and everyone - as long as you abide by the license agreement. The >license agreement for OOo however is more about telling people that is is >open source and where the original source code can be found, etc... > >People can sell OpenOffice without breaking the license agreement. > >/paul
Sometimes it is good if programs such as OpenOffice is available at a fairly substantial price. Many finacially orientated people directly couple a products value to it's price. If you give them OpenOffice, they think it is valueless. If they have to pay for it, then it has value. We had this situation with gcc at my company. We had great problems convincing managment that we can use gcc for our project. Only when we got a quite from redhat for something like US$ 11000 for gcc, dit we get the go ahead. The company purchased gcc supoort at this price, the bean counters were happy, and by the time we received the official documentation and discs, we had already downloaded gcc and were more than 50% complete with the project. Regards Anton Erasmus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
