Hi James, It is great to hear from you that you are planning to offer OpenOffice.org download, CD, your anti virus, and help desk service.
Although I am not a legal person but an software engineer, I would like you to consider OpenOffice.org's position. We, the OpenOffice.org project, has never named our software product Microsoft foo bar. http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=microsoft+site%3Aopenoffice.org Microsoft is a company, one of the software companies. That is it. We have been developing our productive office suite by ourselves. Yes, our product, OpenOffice.org, is able to open Microsoft Office files as well as other several file formats. Thus, Microsoft Office file is just one of them. I don't think OpenOffice.org is Microsoft foo bar. And, please be noticed that the official name of our product is "OpenOffice.org," not "open office." For other stuff, I don't think I am not a person to answer your queries. Best regards, Tora On 2011/06/29 4:56, James Gannon wrote:
To Whom It May Concern,
We wanted to offer open office download in addition to our anti virus, help
desk service.
I was wondering if you knew a catch phrase that is legal to use like "free microsoft
office suite (O.S. open office)"
or "microsoft office emulator" "Free microsoft office suite compatable open
office"
or something similar, also , is it ok for them to download this stuff from a
link on our site or a link we send via email, and if we want to offer it on a
CD how can we price it and who do we buy rights from.
Thanks
James Gannon
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