On Sunday 15 October 2006 2:22 am, Jo wrote:
> kc7hxy wrote:
> > I tried your list of so called places to buy OOo 3.0.03
> > and all I got was a bunch of crokks trying to make money by selling me
> > things I don't want. Please give me a legimate place to buy a CD of OOo.
> >
> > Bud
>
> Hi Bud,
>
>
> OOo version 3.x.x doesn't exist yet. You'll have to make do with version
> 2.0.4, which was just released a few days ago. OOo is free software (The
> free relates to freedom, not price). This means it can be distributed by
> anyone to anyone, either at no cost or for a small fee (± $10 is
> acceptable). You can download it from www.openoffice.org at no cost
> other than what your provider charges you for bandwith.
>
> You can also take up the offer of Dotan Cohen, who will send you one at
> no cost. This means he sucks up the cost of the CD-R and the postage and
> he puts in time to burn the CD and to mail it to you. That's really nice
> of him, I would say!
>
> It is unfortunate indeed that there are people on the internet who want
> to ride on the coattails of OOo and make an easy buck out of it. Not
> everybody is like that though.
>

Well, its is unfortunate that there are those who contribute nothing, and yet 
gain a profit.  However, if I were a developer, who had contributed code to 
the project, I might be persuaded to cell CDs and make a little while 
promoting it.


-- 
See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
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