On Friday 19 October 2007 05:24:00 you wrote: > Wow. > > Well, I'm just a normal user (student, high school) who wants to > keep it legal. That's why I'm asking questions. I very much like > the opensource alternatives, but some questions appeared in my > mind: are those alternatives legal? Aren't they just "free > copies"? Isn't that an infringement of somekind? These kind of > questions. > > Thanks for the answer, although, I didn't ask for the "attack" on > Bill Gates. What? His errors justify our own? Because he stole we > can too? > > No problem, though ;) Thanks alot for taking the time to answer > me. > > - João
You posted to a public mail list of OpenOffice.org users we get what we call trolls posting on this list with questions designed just to stir things up. There are people who don't want any help and don't want to learn anything they just want to make some noise. Everyone that replied had that in their mind. Look at it this way, you did not say why you wanted to know. If you had started your post with some information about yourself and what you are trying to accomplish and that you want to do things the right way, as you have done now, we would have responded in a different manner. Your post had the same look/feel as a phishing post would have. It had the legal setup for the kill approach. Be careful how you ask things on mail lists, News Groups and forums that are for and provided by Open Source Software communities. The commercial communities like to attack the Open Source communities because they are a threat to the survival of commercial software. There are a lot of people that measure all things computer with their Microsoft standard so anything that does not follow the Microsoft way of doing things must be wrong, illegal, inferior or just plain weird. This is a skewed standard to measure by because Microsoft doesn't do anything the way the rest of the computer world does things. Microsoft is not the standard they are the exception to the standard. > On 10/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 18 October 2007 08:44:38 you wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > My name is Joao, and I was wondering if you could answer me > > > this question: > > > > > > Can Open Office (and other free/opensource software) be > > > accused of stealing the intellectual property of other > > > programs (in O.o.'s case Microsoft Office)?? > > > > > > Does OpenOffice infringe the intellectual property of > > > Microsoft Office? if not, why not? > > > > > > I would be thankful if you could answer me this question. > > > Thanks alot. > > > > What is the name of the lawfirm where you work? Also What > > Microsoft business partner does your lawfirm represent? > > > > Have you read the GNU GPL and LGPL? > > > > Otherwise why do you ask these questions? > > > > Do you have any interest in using something other than > > Microsoft software? Or are you just stirring the pot? -- http://24.197.142.167/~jack/openofficefaq.php Read the OpenOffice.org FAQ Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
