It sounds like you aren't accepting that it is OK for anyone to sell copies of OOo, and if you don't want to, that's up to you, but I'll try once again. And by the way, I am NOT selling OOo myself, so that's not my motivation for defending the practice. I just checked on EBay, and the highest price I saw was around $8. Most were lower. To me, that is a pretty reasonable price for someone making a CD, applying a label to it, paying for an envelope for it, and mailing it. It is not excessively high for the buyer, and it provides a modest profit for the seller. It avoids the download time, and the frustration of partly downloading it and having your connection broken only to start all over. Or completing a download only to find that it had somehow been corrupted. My sense is that for someone on the low end of computer literacy, this is a much more user friendly way of obtaining OOo than downloading it. If someone wanted to try to sell OOo for $100, I also don't see anything wrong with that. Would anyone buy it given that many people are selling for $8 or less? I suspect not, but let people charge whatever they wish and let the free market decide whether the price was too high or not. In a message dated 12/26/2005 5:36:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I guess you set me straight about "being wrong". While, technically, it may not be a scam ... that's for folks smarter than I, such as perhaps you (seems there's always one or two in the crowd with a "Ya', but ..."). Frankly, legal-or-not, dial-up/shmile-up ... correct/incorrect ... it just seems plain wrong for people to try to take advantage of unsuspecting folks who might not know this great Open Office Program is, plain and simple, a free program (even for dial-up) and a few just want to "make an easy buck". Perhaps you are one of them. If so, go on your greedy way. If not, well, thanks for "enlightening" us.
