Re: Legal open ofifce being sold?
On 11/26/2014 3:43 PM, Clearsight Publishing Co., www.cleareyesight-batesmethod.info wrote: Is this open office? Is this open office? http://www.ebay.com/itm/251723894087 If it is your product, why should I buy on e-bay? Mary That is NOT OpenOffice. It is an ad for a Microsoft Office Suite. You should never have to buy Open Office. Dale - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Legal open ofifce being sold?
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:04:03 -0500 Dale Erwin wrote: > On 11/26/2014 3:43 PM, Clearsight Publishing Co., > www.cleareyesight-batesmethod.info wrote: > > Is this open office? > > > > Is this open office? http://www.ebay.com/itm/251723894087 > > > > If it is your product, why should I buy on e-bay? > > > > > > > > Mary > > > > That is NOT OpenOffice. It is an ad for a Microsoft Office Suite. You > should never have to buy Open Office. > > Dale OpenOffice can be downloaded free. We recommend to download only from www.openoffice.org This site will redirect to SourceForge servers, where the files are stored. The download should then begin in about 5 seconds, without need to click on anything else. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Legal open ofifce being sold?
Dale Erwin wrote: On 11/26/2014 3:43 PM, Clearsight Publishing Co., wrote: Is this open office? http://www.ebay.com/itm/251723894087 If it is your product, why should I buy on e-bay? That is NOT OpenOffice. It is an ad for a Microsoft Office Suite. You should never have to buy Open Office. Screenshots and description look like OpenOffice. It is possible to sell OpenOffice on EBay, see http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/ But we recommend to download from our official site only, see http://s.apache.org/genuine-openoffice (and the download from the official site is of course complete and free). Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Legal open ofifce being sold?
On 11/26/2014 04:04 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > On 11/26/2014 3:43 PM, Clearsight Publishing Co., > www.cleareyesight-batesmethod.info wrote: >> Is this open office? >> >> Is this open office? http://www.ebay.com/itm/251723894087 >> >> If it is your product, why should I buy on e-bay? >> >> >> >> Mary >> > > That is NOT OpenOffice. It is an ad for a Microsoft Office Suite. You > should never have to buy Open Office. > Actually, it says "compatible", so it likely is OO or LibreOffice. Given the ad mentions shipping, I suspect it's a CD. So, if is a CD, without crapware, then it's OK. However, it would be nice if they said what it actually was, including version nunber. Regardless, one should never have to pay for an OO download. CDs should only be a nominal amount. As always, download only from www.openoffice.org. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Legal open ofifce being sold?
On 26/11/14 21:04, Dale Erwin wrote: > That is NOT OpenOffice. The confusing thing is that they call it "Professional Open Office Suite", "Professional Office Suite", "Open Office Suite", and "Open Office Suite 4.1.1". Between that, and the disclosures at the bottom of the page, the implication is that it is either Apache Open Office 4.1.1, or a very close derivative of it. >It is an ad for a Microsoft Office Suite. Further down on the page it states: «You will receive Open Office Suite on CD delivered by USPS First Class mail. ... All software programs on this CD-ROM are Open Source. The distribution of this software is allowed under the GNU LGPL.» That pretty much assures one that it is not Microsoft Office. Going down to the disclaimers, the implication is that what is being offered is Apache Open Office, even though the stated license (GNU LGPL) does not match the current license. >You should never have to buy Open Office. There are circumstances under which purchasing Open Office is a rational decision. To address the original poster's question, purchase of the CD is a reasonable action: * Data transfer limits; * Low throughput speeds; * Dirty network connections; * Installation on a computer that has no network connection, and SneakerNet is not a viable option; jonathon * English - detected * English * English signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Legal open ofifce being sold?
On 27/11/14 07:47, jonathon wrote: On 26/11/14 21:04, Dale Erwin wrote: That is NOT OpenOffice. The confusing thing is that they call it "Professional Open Office Suite", "Professional Office Suite", "Open Office Suite", and "Open Office Suite 4.1.1". The only issue that I see is that those guys are using the term "Professional Open Office Suite" with the description of thus Ebay auction [1] because their shouldn't be any additions such as "Professional" to the brand name. Everything else seems to be OK. The copyright attribution seems to be appropriate. They even pointing out how AOO can be downloaded from the Internet. /Peter [1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/251723894087 Between that, and the disclosures at the bottom of the page, the implication is that it is either Apache Open Office 4.1.1, or a very close derivative of it. It is an ad for a Microsoft Office Suite. Further down on the page it states: «You will receive Open Office Suite on CD delivered by USPS First Class mail. ... All software programs on this CD-ROM are Open Source. The distribution of this software is allowed under the GNU LGPL.» That pretty much assures one that it is not Microsoft Office. Going down to the disclaimers, the implication is that what is being offered is Apache Open Office, even though the stated license (GNU LGPL) does not match the current license. You should never have to buy Open Office. There are circumstances under which purchasing Open Office is a rational decision. To address the original poster's question, purchase of the CD is a reasonable action: * Data transfer limits; * Low throughput speeds; * Dirty network connections; * Installation on a computer that has no network connection, and SneakerNet is not a viable option; jonathon * English - detected * English * English - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Legal open ofifce being sold?
On 11/30/2014 09:59 AM, Peter Junge wrote: > On 27/11/14 07:47, jonathon wrote: >> On 26/11/14 21:04, Dale Erwin wrote: >> >>> That is NOT OpenOffice. >> >> The confusing thing is that they call it "Professional Open Office >> Suite", "Professional Office Suite", "Open Office Suite", and "Open >> Office Suite 4.1.1". > > > The only issue that I see is that those guys are using the term > "Professional Open Office Suite" with the description of thus Ebay > auction [1] because their shouldn't be any additions such as > "Professional" to the brand name. Everything else seems to be OK. The > copyright attribution seems to be appropriate. They even pointing out > how AOO can be downloaded from the Internet. > I agree. There's nothing wrong with selling a CD for a nominal amount. However, it would be better if they called it OpenOffice right at the top. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org