On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
> Am 11/15/2013 07:29 PM, schrieb couvreur laurence: > > Bonjour, >> >> Le 23.10.2013 à 19h09 j'ai téléchargé une version normalement gratuite >> d'open office sur votre site internet. >> Pour cela il fallait envoyer 2 sms pour obtenir des codes afin de >> poursuivre le téléchargement. >> Aujourd'hui ces 2 sms me sont facturés 10euros TTC par mon opérateur! >> Aussi la notion de gratuité n'est elle pas l’absence de transaction >> financière? >> Cordialement, >> >> Laurence Couvreur. >> > > First of all, this is an English-speaking mailing list. I don't know any > French, so please allow me to answer in English. > > > > You cannot have downloaded OpenOffice from our (www.openoffice.org) > website as we don't charge any money to download our software. > > In general, please download only from the original vendor or at least from > approved/trusted 3rd party websites. > > For Apache OpenOffice please use only the following download webpage. This > will forward you to a download offering from our partner SourgeForge: > > http://www.openoffice.org/download/ > > HTH > > Marcus > > > > FYI - English translation from Google: > > On 23.10.2013 at 19h09 I downloaded a free version of normally open office > on your website. > For this it was necessary to send 2 sms to obtain codes to continue > downloading. > Today these two sms are charged me 10 euros TTC per my operator! > Also the notion of free Is not the lack of financial transaction? > Assuming the translation worked properly, he's not saying he was charged money for the download. He's saying whatever site he was downloading from required him to send two text messages in order to get a validation code for the download. Then whoever he sent the texts to billed his phone. I'm guessing whatever site he used not only misrepresented AOO, it also misrepresented "free" and ripped him off. I find it ironic that there are two ads in my Gmail session as I type this offering "Free OpenOffice Download". Don
