Your product was discussed at my church last night and we were all informed
that while it is an excellent product that is has a built-in tracking device
that keeps up with all your web activities. Your comments please?
Martin Dickinson said the following on :
Your product was discussed at my church last night and we were all informed
that while it is an excellent product that is has a built-in tracking device
that keeps up with all your web activities. Your comments please?
That is false.
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Hello Martin,
Someone lied to you. We would never have such an obscene invasion of privacy.
No, our software does *not* have any form of tracking device. That's crazy. You
may be interested to know that the source code for OpenOffice.org (that is, the
blueprints) are public and available for al
None that I know of. Are you sure this person didn't confuse our product with
someone elses?
Daniel?
Alex?
Anyone?
Rigel
--- Martin Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your product was discussed at my church last night and we were all informed
> that while it is an excellent product that
Rigel wrote:
None that I know of. Are you sure this person didn't confuse our product with
someone elses?
Daniel?
Alex?
Anyone?
Rigel
Well, with MS you have to register office, and if you register like more
than 10 times or something, it locks up on you FOREVER! That is if you
re-format your
That is simply not true.
> -Original Message-
> From: Martin Dickinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:04 AM
> To: discuss@openoffice.org
> Subject: [discuss] Concern
>
>
> Your product was discussed at my church last night and
Martin,
I think the opiner has confused OOo with MS-Office 2003 or with MSIE.
OOo has no tracking, especially not web.
However, MS-Office 2003 (along with MS-Windows XP) has DRM functions
which, as a side effect if activated, track who does tries to create,
edit, copy, delete, rename, save, pri
Mensaje citado por Rigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> None that I know of. Are you sure this person didn't confuse our product with
> someone elses?
>
> Daniel?
> Alex?
> Anyone?
>
> Rigel
> --- Martin Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Your product was discussed at my church last night and w
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Well is not the first time I heard about this, this is usually when
ZoneAlarm or other desktop firewall warns you that OOo is looking for an
open port. This is done whe OOo crashes and tries to send the crash
reports to --- Sun.
Some people has bee
On 4/14/05, Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> > Well is not the first time I heard about this, this is usually when
> > ZoneAlarm or other desktop firewall warns you that OOo is looking for an
> > open port. This is done whe OOo crashes and
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alan Madden wrote:
[...]
Regardless of whether a program is trustworthy or not, I would not
trust a company/firewall where you could 'buy' a bypass for your
application.
Nor do I, but that is my understanding of how these things work.
Ultimately though, the implication of spywa
That is simply not true.
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Martin Dickinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:04 AM
> > To: discuss@openoffice.org
> > Subject: [discuss] Concern
> >
> >
> > Your product was d
This is NOT a missunderstanding OOo DOES look to communicate with Sun Servers
and the firewalls do warn the user about it.
The firewall is doing it's job.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish
http://es.openoffice.org/
Mensaje citado por "Lars D. Noodén" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
It depends on what warning or error message the firewall is reporting.
It is a misunderstanding in that there is a world of difference between
monitoring all web activity and reporting a crash.
I haven't seen OOo crash (have been using 1.1.4 for OS X heavily), so I
can't say what goes on. Howev
Hi there!
Lars D. Noodén wrote:
It depends on what warning or error message the firewall is reporting.
It is a misunderstanding in that there is a world of difference between
monitoring all web activity and reporting a crash.
I haven't seen OOo crash (have been using 1.1.4 for OS X heavily), so I
Sorry to have started a new thread on this question. Earthlink is
doing something weird today. I actually had to go to the mail list
server to read the mail today.
Maybe this guy is talking about metadata?
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Ok. Thanks for explaining the dialog that reports a crash.
[...] And that a firewall triggers an alarm offering the user to reject
or allow an Internet connection for any program not yet configured in
the firewall and that it offers the user the possibility to configure a
rule for the future an
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
This is NOT a missunderstanding OOo DOES look to communicate with Sun
Servers and the firewalls do warn the user about it.
The misunderstanding is on the side of the user about the nature of the
connection.
The firewall is doing it's job.
It depends
How in the world is that the responsability of the Firewall to know? And how do
you think that would make any difference to Joe Six Pack. The issue is on the
user to blame not the firewall, if you ask the firewall to warn u when some app
tries to connect to the internet to warn you.
This happens
What is the best way to enlighten the large population of end users that
there are applications that track and report on all their activties and
that OOo is not one of them?
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
How in the world is that the responsability of the Firewall to know?
The ap
> That implies that the user has taken action. I thought were are talking
> about those that do not customize their firewalls.
>
> > If the user is stupid and uneducated, no app in this known universe will
> > make it smart.
> [...]
>
> I agree. Stupid is forver. Ignorance, in contrast, can usua
Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> What is the best way to enlighten the large population of end users that
> there are applications that track and report on all their activties and
> that OOo is not one of them?
>
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
>
>> How in the world is that the respons
Hi there!
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
[... snip ...]
The behavior however that I couldn't explain was the one that happens when you
start OOo. Since I dont use any firewall I couldn't duplicate it and verify it,
but I did know people that duplicate and verify that OOo makes calls to the
internet (or
Good to know. Cheers.
Mensaje citado por Bernd Eilers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi there!
>
> Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> > [... snip ...]
> > The behavior however that I couldn't explain was the one that happens when
> you
> > start OOo. Since I dont use any firewall I couldn't duplicate it and v
Thanks, Bernd. That clears up a lot to me. Apparently the bug in
MS-Windows was being misunderstood by the end user.
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Bernd Eilers wrote:
If I recall it correctly the reason for this was that OOo was just "only!"
simply asking the system for it´s hostname on startup. Unfort
Before OOo attempts to open a connection, have a clear and concise message
appear notifying the user that in-fact, a connection to sun is about ot be
established and that their firewall may inform them that they may need to clear
security provisions to allow OOo to communicate teh error report, so
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