On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 15:11 -0500, Peter Kupfer wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:33 -0500, Peter Kupfer wrote: > > > >>Mark Herring wrote: > >> > >>>Perfect Pro appears to be a commercial branch of OOo. Here's the link: > >>>http://www.cosmi.com/OnlineStore/ProductCatalog/ProductDetail.aspx?Matnr=763000WEB > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>They don't seem to acknowledge the heritage, however.... > >>> > >>>I wonder if they tell their customers to come to us for support? ;) > >> > >>They don't have to, the program does. Try this: > >> > >>*Help > Support* > >> > >>Right there our website is listed. > >> > >>Heck, the name of the program is OpenOffice.org, doesn't take a genius > >>to find the website! :) > >> > > > > > > So this company not only rips off the project they expect us to do there > > support. Never. What they and others have done with re-labelling OOo may > > be sharp business in the Bill Gates sense but expecting free support is > > another thing. Where is the money? Cosmi has not supported the project > > in any fashion that I can find. Nuts to them. > > > > Isn't advertising a form of support. A quote from > <http://www.openoffice.org/contributing/marketing.html>. > > "We need people to distribute OpenOffice.org CDs. Whether you give them > away for free, or sell them at a profit, you will be helping > OpenOffice.org reach more users. If you visit the Distribution project > hope page you will learn about distributing OpenOffice.org and how we > can help." >
What are you trying to say? I am perfectly aware that we have legitimate cd distributors. I do not think that the above applies to free-loading exploiters. If you think that it is okay, you provide the support. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
