Hi On 1 February 2012 22:54, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 22:03 -0500, David Sheffield wrote: >> Hello, >> >> If you go to the Open Office mirrors project (link below) and scroll down >> to United States - Bulk Book Store, the http link to the right actually >> redirects to a Philipino themed porn site. At least I wasn't at work when I >> clicked on it. I wasn't too offended but I'm sure some people would be if >> this happened to them. Just letting you guys know so you can fix it. >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/mirrors/#mirrors >> > > Just sent an email to registered owners of the site, as listed in the > WHOIS db, informing them it's apparently been hijacked.
Thanks, Drew. Interesting. The subject line of this note drew my attention because last year I had a discussion with the owner of OpenOffice.com about possibly working nicely with him. If I recall, he's a Dutch businessperson whose business is not orthogonal to AOO. There are also many other OO.xx (or some other variable without specific and embarrassing meaning), and I actually happen to own one of them, I think: OpenOffice.ca. But there is also OO.za, and many others. Given that we are now a veritable community project, and that most if not all of the OO.XX sites are efforts by local community members, I think it would be reasonable for "us" (in practice, not sure who would constitute the U and S of the set) to situate them within the larger frame of AOO. I, for one, would be honoured to help with this effort, as it would also dovetail with the hell-of-a-lot-more-tedious tracking and consolidation through a kind of reverse-Adamic OOo naming…. My proposal would be that Apache OO simply starts by listing the sites, if they agree; and if so, that those listed be identified as member of the AOO community and abide by Apache's provisions regarding license, brand, etc. *Note* this is a proposal. It is not a bold statement on my part to act arbitrarily. :-) > > //drew > cheers, Louis > >
