Am 02/02/2015 09:15 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/posts/846449215413957
Not sure what we can do about this, or if it is widespread. I hope it
is not a general attitude against open source at BestBuy, the largest
nationwide electronics retailer in America.
But I do wonder if they have a bad feeling regarding open source after
in the article "they" was just a single user. Or should I say a sales clerk?
Either she has made a personal bad experience with OpenOffice because
she downloaded the software from the wrong website, or heard it from
someone else and now takes it over as her opinion or (what I believe)
she is just an average seller with lousy arguments: bashing product A to
sell product B, C ... ;-)
being sued by the SFLC over GPL violations a few years ago:
http://www.informationweek.com/software/operating-systems/open-source-group-sues-consumer-electronics-companies/d/d-id/1085572?
Also in the law case the mistake was to sell a product with GPL-based
open source software but *not* to put the source code with the product
like it has to be to fulfill the conditions of the GPL license.
This is one reason I think it is important to have a page on our
website that explains that Apache OpenOffice has a permissive license
and does not have these same risks.
Marcus
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