On 27 January 2014 18:51, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Jan 27, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > When visiting the website I recognised, that one has to register to be
> able to download the viewer. I don't think this is cool and think that the
> viewer should be downloadable without registering. This is the well known
> behaviour in the OpenSource community.
>
> But SPViewer isn't open source. It's a commercial product and they can do
> whatever they want for registration or sales. Just because it talks to an
> open source server doesn't make it part of the open source community —
> heck, MSIE talks to open source servers ;-)
>
> —Jens
>
> PS: Also, please don't crosspost; it's not good netiquette. I just noticed
> before sending this that my reply would also have gone to
> [email protected], which I'm not subscribed to and which
> would have bounced the message back to me.


Sorry Jens - I thought in this case it would be ok ... I am at the
nosql-group but my answer was rejected nevertheless :) dunno why

Cheers

Andy
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