I would be wary of getting it on a CD these days. There are more than a few vendors that will sell you a CD with Open Office on it. However, the CD may have other little nasties on it as well most of which you do not want. If you have to pay for the software beware.
“ *Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone else is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the Internet. Read books.”* On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:58 PM Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a long history of OpenOffice.org being offered on CD and DVD. > > This was at times with the blessings of the old owners of the Intellectual > Property rights to the URL, Sun Microsystems, and numerous individual > boosters, and some commercial operations. > > The practice went on after the IP was sold to Oracle and then granted to > Apache Software Foundation with regards to boosters and commercial > operations right down to today. > > You may want to nudge folks to only using the download from the > openoffice.org URL, that Apache OpenOffice continues to use, but no one > should act surprised that some folks will have acquired it via CD or DVD. > > Best wishes, > > Drew > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:49 PM David Belina <dbel...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > OpenOffice.org is download only. > > > > > > On February 24, 2020 at 1:19:26 PM, Geoffrey Hartwell ( > > hartw...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid) wrote: > > > > Am I right that OO 4.1.7 can be installed from the URL > > https://www.openoffice.org/download/? There's a British/US option to > > choose among many languages. No Discs. > > > > Yours aye, > > Geoffrey > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:leg...@posteo.de] > > Sent: 24 February 2020 20:01 > > To: users@openoffice.apache.org; Gilbert Gabrielsen < > > gilbert.gabriel...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: Installation Problems. > > > > Hi, > > > > do you have the CD with OpenOffice Version 3.2? > > > > > > All the Best > > > > Peter > > > > Am 24.02.20 um 20:30 schrieb Gilbert Gabrielsen: > > > I am a long time user of Open Office. I recently tried to install ver. > > > 4.1.7. I had some problems so I decided to remove the old version and > > > install the newer one. Every time I try I get this message 'The > > > feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk > > that is not > > > available. Insert the 'Open Office.org' 3.2 disk and click ok'. Any > > > help you can give me with this problem would be appreciated. This is > > > my second request. Gilbert Gabrielsen at keit...@yahoo.com. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > >
