James and Shellie Lathrop wrote:
I was looking on ebay for a word processor to view word documents. I
saw an auction selling Microsoft Word Viewer, Microsoft Excel Viewer,
Microsoft Visio Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer and OpenOffice.
So I bid on it and won. Later after talking to my son I realized that
all these products are offered for free. I am contacting you and
Microsoft to see if it is illegal to sell your free products. My son
said something about it being against your GNU license. I realized
that I got ripped off and I just wanted to know if what this guy is
doing is lawful. His ebay user name is letusfixyourpc_com, Item
number: 5845724989. I had to pay $7.45 for it.
Thank you for your time.
James Lathrop
It's okay to sell CDs of OpenOffice.org. The licensing allows that and
as long as the price isn't outrageous it is considered something of a
service, especially for those with slow Internet connections.
I would wonder more about the legality of selling the Microsoft
programs. But I'll leave that up to Microsoft's more-than-able legal
department ;).
In any case, if you got the latest version of OpenOffice.org (2.0 or
2.01) then $7.45 is actually a pretty reasonable price for a copy on CD
if you are stuck on a dial-up connection. The download is pretty big and
can take several hours on a slow connection.
--
Rod
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