WinRAR-Marketing wrote:
Dear OpenOffice.org Team,
I am contacting you from win.rar GmbH, the official publisher of
WinRAR, with a proposal for cooperation. While viewing your website
at www.openoffice.org, I noticed that you offer your downloads
mainly in .tgz format. We would like to propose you to consider
adding the .rar format to your current download options. Since
RAR files can usually compress content up to 30 percent better
than ZIP, this would save downloading time for the people who
download files from your website.
WinRAR is the most complete file compression tool available
on the market. It supports all RAR and ZIP archives, as well as most other
popular archive formats. The RAR archiver is also available for Linux,
MacOS X, DOS, OS/2 and FreeBSD. Moreover, WinRAR is constantly being
developed. Please check out our official website at www.win-rar.com for
more detailed information about WinRAR.
If you agree to offer .rar as a download option for your downloads, we would
of course provide you with a license key for WinRAR, including all future
updates, for free. We also have a "Get WinRAR" button prepared for your use
in order to lead your customers to our download site in case they are not
familiar with our software.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at your
earliest convenience. You can reach me personally via e-mail or
call me at +49-421-639390.
Thank you for your consideration!
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Davlatbek Aminov
Marketing Assistant
win.rar GmbH
Unser Lieben Frauen Kirchhof 10
28195 Bremen
Germany
www.win-rar.com (website)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail)
+49 421 63939-0 (tel)
+49 421 63939-99 (fax)
I for one actually think rar may not be that bad of an idea. As many
know, there are tools to make download easier and repair bad downloads.
I feel that if RAR can work in Usenet, then it should work for OOo.
How many times are there complaints about damaged downloads? With rar,
a person could download a par2 file and repair their damaged files.
Saving time and bandwidth to those that are most in need.
The only issue I feel is OOo should find a cross platform supplier. One
that works on all the platforms that the users use, such as Linux, Mac
as well as Windows. Now if WinRAR can be cross compiled to work on
these other platforms, then great, go for it. Until then, hold off.
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Robin Laing
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