Mike Dawe wrote: [...] > I don't know if you're aware of the amount of uninformed people that > have been posting to this list over the past few weeks and mentioning > having to register OOo... I think this is typical of what is going on, > and there are enough unaware folks who just have not got a clue, have > heard about OOo, want to try it - but the 1st place they end up at > (using a search engine) is at really dodgy links like the above. Because > it looks legit, they follow through, pay some money and wonder why is > doesn't work. This is such a bad thing. > > After posting this to the list, I will lodge a complaint with Version > Tracker. I hope that, if you read this and feel as outraged, you will do > the same.
I have since posted a complaint to Version Tracker. But, seeing as the link was Google generated. I have also sent a complaint to Google. The body of that post was: "Registered with Google and available on all (Google affiliated) search engines... <http://openoffice-software.com/new/home/?affebnid=124&gid=&ovid=&yid=&msid=&hop=howgoodhttp://openoffice-software.com/new/home/?affebnid=124&gid=&ovid=&yid=&msid=&hop=howgood> Offers to sign up for a fee, this well known Open source software. Shame - Total and absolute *shame*. How on earth did this get past any form of scrutiny?" Hopefully it will help in the shut-down of that particular website. Regards. -- Mike Dawe OOo 3.0.1rc2 MacOSX PPC US English --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
