Shawn Eliason wrote:
I think this is personally wrong myself.....but I don't know if you
believe so.....
There are people on ebay who are selling OpenOffice on ebay as a
digital dowload......which means I give them 5 or 10 bucks and they
send me a link. I think that is pretty unethical since they can get it
for free from you.
I sent ebay an email stating that there should be a standard rule
making ebay sales od open-source software should be prohibited from
being a digital download. I see it as someone profiting from all of
your hard work without providing a service......
I looked on ebay to buy a CD of Open Office to install on computers in
my school and was appalled by the number of digital downloads being
sold. I can only imagine how many of those people actually send links
to the official website or to a mirror.....
If you guys have an issue with it as well, I would suggest you contact
ebay as well.
Shawn
Hi Shawn,
If OpenOffice.org gets to be more widely known because of this, then a
service to the OOo community has been delivered and the customer gets a
fine product for $10 instead of for $400 dollars. A win win situation,
if you ask me.
Jo
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