On 03/15/2007 03:37 PM, George Wolf wrote: > Paul wrote: >> >> >> Yep - the list has received emails about this in the past. OpenOffice >> is released under a license that makes it perfectly legal to sell >> copies of it. Normally the price should reflect the media that is >> comes on (eg, CDROM) but sometimes it does not. In any event they are >> not doing anything illegal. >> >> /paul >> >
I believe that you are thinking of: http://www-openoffice.com/ [notice ^ no www.] That site does sell OOo etc. and are ok as far as I know. > www.openoffice.com is a little bit more of a problem, as it is offering > "free Microsoft Office" among other things. Quite a few things on the > sight look suspicious, to the point that it might be worth OOo putting > up a disclaimer, so that when they disappear nobody comes after the good > guys. I think they goes way beyond simply trying to sell an otherwise > free product. It looks far less honest than any of the "dupe" sights > I've seen so far. > > George Wolf http://www.openoffice.com/ is a different story... it is one of those switch pages that redirect you to a sponsored link page. The registrant is hidden by Moniker, but the page shows: MDNH, Inc. and the IP belongs to: OrgName: Marchex OrgID: MARCH Address: 413 Pine Street Address: Suite 500 City: Seattle StateProv: WA PostalCode: 98101 Country: US http://www.google.com/search?q=MDNH%2C+Inc. http://www.google.com/search?q=Marchex who seem to snarf up common domain names. OOo should have registered the .com name as well as the .org name in order to protect this sort of thing happening. I suppose that Sun could take it to arbitration if they were concerned. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
