On Sunday 22 July 2007 15:49:56 John Meyer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sunday 22 July 2007 07:30:30 Stephen Slaughter wrote: > >> Dear Sir/Madam, > >> > >> Please be advised that OpenOffice appears to be being sold on > >> Ebay, I enclose ONE example of this as an attatchment > > > > Read the GNU LGPL here > > > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html > > > > or here > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/license.html > > > > and the GNU GPL here > > > > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html > > > > Learn the difference between commercial software, shareware, > > freeware and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open > > Source Software (OSS) > > > > Openoffice.org is FOSS > > You think maybe we should send an e-mail to everybody who is > moderated saying, "thank you for your question we hope you'll > stay awhile and, by the way, yes they are selling OpenOffice.org > on e-bay and yes it is legal and yes we all know"?
That works for me. I wish the site had information similar to that right on the first page big enough for people to see it or directly before they click on the link to send an e-mail to the list which they probably think is going to some one at the Openoffice.org corporate offices. It should also be made clear that the e-mail that non-subscribers are using is going to a public mailing list for 1000s to see. I know the information is on the site but not where any one will see it. Someone would have to be searching for it to find it. It should be a requirement for people to read through the FAQ before they can sign up on the list or it should be set up so people will have to read the rules about how to use the list before they can sign up. For everyone that does hang around on this list, we should start teaching these spoon fed Windows users how to search for answers instead of just giving it to them just because they asked for it. I am not saying don't help but I am saying tell them where to look or how to find the answer. Example if you use Google and search with these words you will find your answer. I know that Openoffice.org is trying to spread its presence against a big competitor but that is no reason to not try to get these people to think instead of spoon feeding them. A lot of these repeat, ridiculous, lazy questions would go away if the web site was revamped to make that information easier to find like having it right in front of them before they try to make contact via e-mail. To anyone that can do something about this, I will work on the site if I have access to change the content. -- http://webpages.charter.net/jlgates Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
