On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Marcus <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > 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? >
A few years ago there was a report that sales clerks at this retailer were being trained to tell customers to avoid open source: http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/09/07/best.buy.told.to.misrepresent.linux/ Regards, -Rob > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
