Michael Momich wrote:
It has come to my attention that the folks at www.thinkall.com
<http://www.thinkall.com/> are using the SUN microsystem product
_OpenOffice_ in a commercial way to either generate revenues directly
or, to promote the sales of other revenue generating products. I checked
the SUN microsystem-generated list of authorized CD distributors for
the OpenOffice product and, the company _ThinkAll _was not included in
that list.
I've attached a pdf copy of the thinkall.com web page showing the
OpenOffice product being advertised for the benefit of thinkall.com
customers. You will note that nowhere on the page is any mention made of
either _SUN microsystems_ or, the_ open-source project_ that is
responsible for the coding of OpenOffice and, the subsequent free
downloads of this code from the OpenOffice website!
I just thought that this sort of thing should be well known to SUN
microsystems. I hope that SUN microsystems is benefitting from Think
All's use of the OpenOffice product as both a promotional and,
revenue-generating tool.
Regards, Mike Momich
Mike:
Thanks for your concern. OpenOffice.org is free, and is free to
distribute, even to charge a fee for cost of distribution.
I looked on their site, and they are at least still calling it OOo,
which is better than some other distributors that re-name it when the
package it (which is possible since they have access to the source code).
As far as I can tell, they are not doing anything wrong. Thanks for
letting us know, and if you see another, please do the same, and we will
look at it.
Crystle
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Crystle Numan
Administrative Secretary, Immanuel CRC
61 Mohawk Rd. W. Hamilton ON L9C 1V9
905-385-0662
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