On 04/14/2014 09:57 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
On 2014-04-14, at 12:46, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts
<lui...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, On 2014-04-14, at 11:33, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 04/14/2014 07:20 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
On 2014-04-14, at 09:39, Samer Mansour <samer...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Odd, I thought this was pretty obvious:
https://www.openoffice.org/why/why_sme.html Its only 2
clicks into the site. I want to learn more -> Businesses,
third bullet down.
This may be a product of our localized sites not existing /
being updated. This person was inquiring for a Malaysian
business, not sure if the person inquiring was also from
Malaysia.
Samer
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Rob Weir
<robw...@apache.org> wrote:
This seems to be an FAQ item: What are commercial terms
for AOO? Where is a good place to put this FAQ?
-Rob
Being obvious, stating the repeated—then stating it again—is
no proof against the wilfully oblivious poster who feels
compelled to correspond personally with seeming humans to
obtain requisite legal permissions; in fact, it may be
legally required to get an actual reply from the copyright
holder that commercial usage of this free software is
permitted.
At least, that was my experience long long ago.
Having a FAQ, as we did at Sun, helped--but only for this we
envisioned being like us. In the end, just spending time at
night with the outlier questions seemed most expeditious.
louis
Maybe it would help to include an additional question on the "I
want to learn more about OpenOffice" topic on the home page of
the website -- "What is the cost for licenses?"
or something similar
-1. A link to FAQ might do the trick. But how many queries of
this sort (clueless) do we actually get? Not that many, yes? I
would rather we keep our website as clean and direct as possible,
and invite people to contribute, yes, and to distribute, but
given *why* people come to the site, the simpler the better.
Analogues: Mozilla, for one but one could also point to other
open source apps that are commodified, e.g., Drupal,
https://drupal.org/. (Drupal's site is clearly not meant for the
naive user, however.)
Actually, we've had a few of these in the last month or so,
variations on "May I use OpenOffice commercially", "May I
pre-install OpenOffice on hardware that I'm distributing", and "I'm
a central buying authority and I have paperwork to fill out on all
the software my customer uses". We're dealing in these cases with
bureaucrats, not familiar with open source software. If there is
not a box in their form for open source they might not know what to
do.
Egad. You mean, we *don't* have that sort of language already? I
figured we'd retained that and other clarifications from OOo days'
FAQ, not all of which related to Sun/Oracle or the licenses used. (I
helped write or edit most of the faq and maintained them). The faq
are still there, in svn, last I checked.
But anyway, we used to have language stating what you just put. It
worked—for those who read it and got it.
Louis
Here's the "overview" FAQ page.
https://www.openoffice.org/faq.html
I honestly don't know right at the moment what it's linked from (I will
check). Which of these items do you consider most beneficial?
Right now, the WHY page seems to me the most straightforward way to get
the right information to folks. I'll work on a better "teaser" for it
from the home page today in a test area so we can take a look and evaluate.
I doubt they'll find on their own whatever page we put this info
in, but it would be a time saver just to be able to point them to
it next time.
-Rob
-louis
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Jain, Rahul
<rahul.j...@softwareone.com
wrote:
Hello Team,
Please respond to our mail on urgent basis.
Thanks
Best Regards,
Rahul Jain
Global Procurement Team
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 6:52 PM *To:*
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Hello,
We are waiting for your response.
Thanks
Best Regards,
Rahul Jain
Global Procurement Team
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Hello,
We are waiting for your response.
Thanks
Best Regards,
Rahul Jain
Global Procurement Team
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*From:* Global Vendor & Publisher Management *Sent:*
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 4:33 PM *To:*
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Quote requested-Open Office 3 *Importance:* High
Hello Team,
We have an end user ‘Stamford College’ interested in
below mentioned license for their environment in
Malaysia. They have reached out to SoftwareONE Malaysia
to see if we were able to procure this software for
them.
SoftwareONE has earlier also has done business with you
and we request
you
to please provide the below details for this request:
*Sku No.*
*Item Description*
*Qty*
*List Price*
*(per user)*
*Currency*
*Language Code*
*Operating System*
*Version*
*Reseller Discount*
*(in %)*
*Customer Discount*
*(if applicable)*
Open Office 3(Educational prices)
3
1 Year Maintenance (Mandatory/ Optional)
3 Years Maintenance (Mandatory/ Optional)
*Note: Please specify what all is included in
Maintenance and if Maintenance is Recurring or not.*
*Bill-to-SWO Location: SWO *Malaysia
*Deploy-to-Customer Location: *Malaysia
We also request you to please share the reseller
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list validity.
Kindly mention your terms and conditions:
Price Validity
Payment Terms
Delivery Time
Freight Charges
Process of placing order
Taxes
EULA link
Downgrade rights
Please also confirm whether the product is available
*per user/ per server*?
Thank you for your time and attention and I look
forward to your prompt response on this matter.
If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to
contact me.
Best Regards,
Rahul Jain
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