Thank you for your response.
This below is a link that will show you and all others just how many are
selling Open Office as a download, (Digital delivery).
LINK:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=open+office&category0=
http://search.ebay.com/open-office_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQfromZR40QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ33QQsbrsrtZd
OK, I do know that It is entirely legal to sell Open Office.
Many vendors sell a CD for a
nominal amount and provide a valuable service for those who cannot
download Open Office. Others charge more and may offer other benefits.
There are these, who charge for a download link and they are providing
no value over what's available for free from www.openoffice.org.
Open Office is available as a free download from www.openoffice.org and
may be distributed to others. If someone is distributing Open Office,
they are supposed to advise users that Open Office binaries and source
are available from www.openoffice.org, as per the instructions on:
http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/OEM_and_CD.html .These who do
sell Open Office as a download provide no help what so ever and I think
that this is very wrong.
There are many that have contributed to make Office what it is today
and what it will be in the future for all others. To just resell a download is
not fair to all those that have worked so hard in the past as well as for all
those that will keep on doing so well into the future.
Only we as in my self and those at Open Office can help put a stop to the
selling of Open Office on eBay. I myself am working on this and really feel
that those involved there at Open Office could help as well.
This is a link to eBay [EMAIL PROTECTED] I feel that only the backers that
get involved with this can help put a stop to the downloads on eBay that do not
help all involved in the Open Office community.
Thanks for your time.
Mr. L.D. Brewer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
10/28/2007
To:
[email protected]
Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 12:50 24/10/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>OK, I want or need to know if the Open Office software that everyone
>can download for FREE on the Open Office web site can be sold on
>eBay as a download. In the meaning of being distributed as a
>download and sold as a download link.
Sadly, there is probably nothing to prevent anyone doing this. The
only solution is for those in the know to publicise the fact that it
is available for nothing directly from OpenOffice.
>I just do not think it is right that many are selling your software ...
It's not "our" software, of course: this mailing list, as its name
("Users") suggests, is of users of OpenOffice - just like you and me.
>Please reply so I may follow up on this at eBay.
I suspect this has already been tried. Good luck!
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker - privately
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