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From: Nicolas Mailhot on 15 Jan 2007 13:26
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Le dimanche 14 janvier 2007 =C3=A0 21:39 +0000, Rob Putt a =C3=A9crit :
> This is absolutely unacceptable. Is there anyway we can prevent ebay user=
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> selling Open Office unless it is on a CD,=20

Make the @openoffice.org download page so well-known no one bothers with
the ebay pages

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Nicolas Mailhot

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From: Paul on 15 Jan 2007 14:30
> > Is there anyway we can prevent ebay users
> > selling Open Office unless it is on a CD,
Admittedly it sounds cheeky. Money for a URL that anyone can access,
but as the other poster noticed, it may just raise the profile of OOo.

The ebay posters have clearly indicated that they are complying with
the GNU and LesserGNU license agreements in there business
transactions. What they are doing is not illegal (AFAIK) - just
cheeky...

/paul

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From: Mathias Bauer on 17 Jan 2007 03:51
Rob Putt wrote:

> This is absolutely unacceptable. Is there anyway we can prevent ebay users
> selling Open Office unless it is on a CD, as basically with a pay to
> download service someone else is just selling a download link, and the idea
> of OpenSource Office is to keep it free and open, this prevents this. Also
> it is not fair to you as an organization, as the ebay seller doesn't
> contribute to open office bandwidth bills. It is a very big scam.

Other people sold empty software *boxes*, now they sell dowload *links*.
You can't prevent the latter as well as you can't prevent the former.

Obviously there are enough people that don't read carefully enough
before buying something. So are the buyers stupid or the sellers clever?
Maybe both statements are correct.

Ciao,
Mathias

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