At 12:55 15/10/2012 +0100, Michael Murray wrote:
I have recently seen a posting on the EBay shopping website, which suggested that your free Open Source "OpenOffice" application is being sold on EBay for a charge of £3.49 - which I see as robbery and extortion for something that is available on OpenOffice.org for free.
If you look carefully, it is clear that the supplier is offering to burn a CD with OpenOffice and to deliver it for no extra charge. Someone with a slow network connection may well prefer to use this offer - and £3.49 does not seem at all excessive for this service.
Just thought that I should alert you of how a British "top-rated EBay business" is going to great lengths to con people into paying for a free Open Source programme, which has been made by your brand of programmes.
I'm not sure what "great lengths" you have in mind. Are you? Selling on Ebay is fairly straightforward, isn't it?
I trust people will understand that they are paying for the service of creating and delivering the CD, not for the free software itself. Indeed, the advertisement even says "Please note that this software [...] can be downloaded free from the internet".
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