On Sun December 25 2005 22:07, + James and Shellie Lathrop wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > 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.
Hi James, It is completely lawful to do this with OpenOffice.org. In fact you can also install it as many times as you want or download it for free from http://openoffice.org. Please reply to [email protected] only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
