Richard Detwiler wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There have been several other *threads* of email about this. There is
absolutely nothing illegal, amoral, wrong, bad, evil, or not-right about
what they are doing.
On 8/16/06, Richard Detwiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eternity_Dragon wrote:
> Hello,
> just wanted to inform you about http://www-openoffice.com/. It seems
> their
> using "Open Office" for a software package. This might mislead people
> to use
> not real OpenOffice, but the one, they provide. This might be a
> problem. I
> thought you'll want to hear about this.
>
I clicked the link and it looks to me like it is in fact OpenOffice.org
that they are marketing. So I'm not sure where there is any deception
going on.
Chad said it much more clearly than I did, but that was the point that I
was trying to make also (no deception involved; nothing that they're
doing is wrong). Maybe the only picky point is that they should call it
"OpenOffice.org" (the official name) rather than "OpenOffice".
Seems like the OOo license should stipulate that any commercial
offerings include an acknowledgement to the OOo community and a link to
the OO site so that unwary users would at least have the opportunity to
see that they can download OOo for free. Seems like the point of OOo
is, in part, to allow those who don't have the means to purchase or make
a contribution to still be able to use the software.
Carl
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