On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 08:16 -0400, drew wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 13:23 +0200, Guy Waterval wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > Hi all, > > > > 2012/5/27 Dave Barton <[email protected]> > > > > > FileHippo.com is a very popular download site for free software and for > > > many years they have been offering OOo binaries for download. They are > > > now offering > > > Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe from this > > > page: http://www.filehippo.com/download_openoffice/ > > > > > > While this is good for user awareness of our first release, some of the > > > information on that download page is incorrect and in one part totally > > > misleading: > > > > > > > There are other problems of this type, for instance, the fr webpage of the > > AOO project : > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/fr/ > > > > You will see a link "Boutique OpenOffice.org", pointing to the fr OOo.org > > former store, now in the hands of LibO : http://enventelibre.org/la-mouette. > > You can buy there old articles about OOo.org (remaining stocks) gently > > mixed with the new ones (LibO). They sell also articles for some other > > linked associations : > > > > - > > > > April : TDF Supporters : http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/ > > - > > > > Framasoft, which writes great articles about OO.org : > > http://www.framasoft.net/article472.html > > > > In this case, the issue is not these associations themselves, which have > > the right to have their own opinion. The issue is, for me, the AOO project > > itself, which not controlls seriously its external communication. > > > > After several (public and private) requests inviting to be careful with > > some links present on the fr website, nothing has changed up to now. For > > me, these things are not to be minimized. I have nothing against a certain > > communication with the concurrent project, but if we will avoid some battle > > in the future, the best way is perhaps to be more careful with our external > > communication. > > > > Of course, this represents only my personal opinion, and has not to be > > interpreted as a direct attack or any perverse insinuation against the > > person who has in the hands the keys of the fr website. > > Ah yes, the seagull - I thought that was what this was all about. > > None hold keys to anything here. Your friend Eric could of edited that > web page any time he wanted. > > You could do so, just by following the steps to get permission. > > I could - shall I - shall I just go remove the box on the right, with > the 4 links you seem to find so objectionable?
Done - also removed graphic being delivered up from la-mouette site. > > //drew > >
