NoOp wrote:
On 12/19/2007 12:10 AM, Drew Jensen wrote:
So, does this guy really burn me...no - the guys on eBay that are
actually selling the web address for downloads...now that burns me up...
I made a suggestion at the forum that we might want to organize a letter
writing ( email ) campaign to eBay asking them to ban this type of
activity.
Drew
Why is that? If a person is supposedly smart enough to connect to the
internet and use ebay to bid on something, then they should be smart
enough to use a major search engine such as Google or Yahoo to look up
the information about the item that they are bidding on and buying.
Actually I've nothing against someone selling a download link to fools
as long as they support it afterwards. What burns me is when someone
sells a download link and then refers the fool to this list for support.
One question I have, are the links being left in the private label
packages to the OpenOffice.org site(s).
example
- check for updates ( almost a slap in the face of their 'customers'
isn't it )
- Help file links for documentation ( this will become more prevalent in
future versions of the package if I understand correctly )
I think I already know the answer.
Along with our discussions I note that this issue of 'Identity' is not
lost on the corporate players - SUN, Novell, RedHat, Canonical, IBM -
where that might lead, who knows.
Of course that is a slightly different question then 'Some one sells a
link to a person for downloading vanilla OpenOffice.org' - that is just
an example of the old saying: "There is a sucker born every minute." (s ic)
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