Hi :) How about if we sold LibreOffice on usb-sticks that could be read by Windows? Would it be paranoid to think that MS might bother to chase to chase us if we did that? Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 July, 2011 8:20:31 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice On 7/6/2011 9:26 PM, planas wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 06:55 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> Quoting Tom Davies<[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi :) >>> Lol. Why all this change of direction? and why did this suddenly >>> occur moments >>> AFTER Jean left for a couple of weeks? >>> >>> >>> Ignoring the advice of legal experts based on a quick read of a >>> children's fairy >>> story does not make any sense to me. From a quick google search >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom >>> http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom_%282008,_USA%29 >>> MS sued a company for using fat32, not even the more advanced Ntfs, and won. >>> Fat32 is pretty much the standard system used by the vast majority >>> of people on >>> external storage devices. Being unaware of court actions and being >>> unaware of >>> the strategy MS uses (such as buying-up software patents) does not >>> make us safe >>> from those issues. >>> >>> >>> It would be really paranoid to think that Gary might be an MS >>> employee but he is >>> using fairly standard tactics that would normally be designed by a >>> competitor to >>> disrupt a community-led group. >>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2012229/Microsofts-Hottest-New-Profit-Center-Android?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter >>r >> >> rday >> >> > Unless someone is willing to spend the time and money to properly > research the US legal issues, the safest course is avoid any chance of > putting us into a possible legal crosshairs. I have neither. The problem > is that no one has come forward who is US attorney and knowledgeable on > software related issues to advise us. MS could consider LO as a direct > competitor to MSO and thus would look for our legal blunders committed > out of ignorance of US law. > > It may be more tedious for us to make sure our screenshots do not show > anything that would imply a Windows OS but it is safer. I doubt any > Linux distro would be upset if their desktop was identifiable in one of > our screenshots. In fact a subtle plug could made by saying all the > screenshots were made on various Linux distros. Many Windows users think > we are command line using dinosaurs and would be surprised to see a > vaguely familiar desktop. One would have to be extremely paranoid to even think that Microsoft would bother suing anybody or any organization over any screenshots with the Windows XP theme appearing in any non-MS documents. (Most people, even Microsoft, have lives...) Especially considering that Windows XP is nearly a decade old and is not even officially supported by Microsoft any longer, as MS considers Windows XP as being economically obsolete, for sales purposes. Gary -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is... Technical Editor forum <http://TechnicalEditor.LivernoisYard.com/phpBB3/> -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
