There was an indiscriminate posting of an e-mail from info@ softwaredistributor.info to multiple lists. The post wasn't moderated onto this list. But anyone subscribed to this list who "Replied All ..." to its appearance on another list would have cross-posted here too.
The easiest place to see the thread is on the ooo-marketing list at < http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-marketing/201205.mbox/date>. Basically, a distributor of OO.o on CD-ROM wants to have their listing changed on an old OpenOffice.org page that lists such distributors. This was solved by Andrea removing the listing entirely. I say that's appropriate. How to clean up the distribution of CD-ROMs and vet the list is being discussed on the ooo-dev@ list [;<). It would be useful to know what users think about CD-ROM distributions too. - Dennis MORE THOUGHTS My personal concern is that there are difficulties knowing the authenticity and integrity of such materials when provided by third parties. These days, that can expose users to malware and more-serious exploits. One thought would be for CD-ROM ISO images to be available from the project or some other single, highly-reliable source. Those could be recorded and redistributed by anyone so long as there is appropriate identification of their origin and how to verify that. There would need to be authentication and integrity measures on those CDs so folks could detect whether they have a legitimate one, especially when troubleshooting and reporting problems. Others will still do their own CD-ROM packaging; it is completely permissible under open-source distribution conditions. There is nothing to be done about who assures the authenticity of those independent distributions and who stands up to support them (or not). I don't think Apache OpenOffice should be in the business of linking to such producers and it would be nice if those distributions included how the producer will provide first-line support. That's my personal perspective. This is probably more-appropriate on ooo-dev, but I thought power users here might have an interest also. -----Original Message----- From: Scooter C [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 13:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hong Kong Distributor (Free Software-Free CD-ROM) What IS this email about? It makes no sense. Take Care. Scooter College Park, MD USA Andrea Pescetti wrote on 5/6/2012 8:40 AM: > [email protected] wrote: >> Re:Hong Kong Distributor (Free Software-Free CD-ROM) >> http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/cdrom/index.html >> Please Change my website URL from >> http://www.networkowned.com (Domain illegally transferred to other >> account) >> to >> http://www.softwaredistributor.info > > (You wrote to two public mailing lists: see > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-users/ > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-marketing/ ) > > OK, we have two issues here. > > The first one is to remove the existing link for Hong Kong, which > points to a patently unrelated site (first external link above). This > is now solved at http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/cdrom/index.html > > The second one would be to add the new "community distributor", i.e., > your last URL above. But this site has some stuff that can keep > Trademarks (in CC) busy for a while (examples: logo of Apache > OpenOffice 3.4 while actually distributing version 3.3, some quite > unrelated links at the bottom of page, trademarks not acknowledged) > and we might want to deeply restructure the > http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/cdrom/index.html > page a few weeks after version 3.4 is released. So I don't feel > confident in adding the link before we hear from Trademarks that it is > OK to do so. > > A lot of other sites already listed at > http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/cdrom/index.html > have the same issue. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
