It's not like Luxative Office is the only one doing this. In my local Office Max, I saw "Perfect Office Pro" or something like that. A Nice retail box of OpenOffice.org for only $19.95. If you look at the screenshots on the box, you can clearly see where it says "OpenOffice.org 1.1.1" in the title bar. I think it's a Good Thing (tm). I don't think it's a scam. How is it any different than the countless *n*x distros that change the name of OpenOffice.org Writer to "Word Processor" or Calc to "Spreadsheet" or even "MyDistroNix Office" or whatever. It's still open source. It's still open format. It's still *not* Microsoft.
I'd prefer someone to pay $20 for OpenOffice.org - no matter the name - than $150- $500 for MSO. Heck, I'd think it would be better come someone to pay $19.95 for "Perfect Print Office Professional" or "Luxative Office 2006" than pirate MSO for free. -Chad Smith On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:22:42 -0600, Kevin Hatch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This scam makes the discussion rounds every few months. Short of legal > action, which I'd assume would have been done years ago if it were > possible, the next best option would be simple public education. Most > of the documented talk about luxuriousity takes place in forums and > lists like this. If one were to google the company and find a nice, > clean website that explained what the "product" is and where the > software really comes from, even perhaps going so far as to provide > instructional help for installing the applications separately, it would > be quite obvious. That would go the farthest to protect the real open > source projects. Joe Public will not read through long forum posts' > text to figure it out, and the time it would take an enduser to figure > it all out is probably worth a lot more than $13 to buy luxuriousity. > That's really all luxuriousity sells: packaging. Open source that, and > there is no product. > --Kevin > > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/17/05 10:20 PM >>> > Hello. > > Having Googled this issue, I discovered that this fellow has been > seriously cheesing off folks for a while now. > > Among many of the mailing lists talking about this ... > > http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2005-March/009954.html > > > > -- Travis. > > > > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 21:55 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote: > > Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > > Does anyone know what technology underlies Luxurosity's MP3 karaoke > > > > ripper? I'd like to use it, but I'll be damned if I will support > > > Luxurosity, which doesn't give back to the community at all. > > > > > > In fact, I would like to know what the technology is so that I can > > > > spread the word and undermine Luxurosity's selfish efforts. > > > > > > http://www.luxuriousity.com/karaokedownload.htm > > > > > Wow, this is unreal. > > > > http://www.luxuriousity.com/photopd.htm > > > > They have taken like all of the software on the openCD and are > marketing > > it. They have OOo, Gimp, Audacity, etc... > > > > Is there any way to stop this. I know not legally, but what can we do > as > > a community to redirect consumers? > > > > -- -Chad Smith *G-Mail ROCKS
