Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-12-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Regina Henschel > wrote: > >> But I'm concerned about the way the product is shown. For example in >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-Office-Word-Excel- >> Compatible-Open-Office-Professional-Edition-2013/

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> -Original Message- > From: Donald Whytock [mailto:dwhyt...@gmail.com] > Our routine answer to this is that, no, AOO > downloaded from > AOO sites doesn't install any of those things; if it did, > they didn't get > it from us. And *this* response is OK, *because* there is nothing o

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > But I'm concerned about the way the product is shown. For example in > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-Office-Word-Excel- > Compatible-Open-Office-Professional-Edition-2013/281137965681 > Either it is not our OpenOffice, then it may not

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, Jorg Schmidt schrieb: Hello, -Original Message- From: luis e [mailto:didakti...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 1:35 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Openoffice is being sold on ebay To whom it may concern: I found out that there are sellers in ebay sellin

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > > We don't warrant AOO in any case...we provide it as-is. > > However, we can > > state that binaries people download from AOO sites are built from AOO > > source and don't contain anything else; we can't guarantee > > that for copies > > fr

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> > > From: dwhyt...@gmail.com [mailto:dwhyt...@gmail.com] On > > > > > Please note that Apache does not endorse or guarantee any > > > copy of AOO not > > > downloaded from an AOO site. > > > > Is not it better to say that in general there is no guarantee it, no > > matter where > > the download c

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > > From: dwhyt...@gmail.com [mailto:dwhyt...@gmail.com] On > > > Please note that Apache does not endorse or guarantee any > > copy of AOO not > > downloaded from an AOO site. > > Is not it better to say that in general there is no

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:34 PM, luis e wrote: > I will try to contact ebay to let them know about this issue. > > Regards > And this is wrong because? Even if it were a GPL license piece of software (it itsn't) it's perfectly fine to sell open source software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sel

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > From: dwhyt...@gmail.com [mailto:dwhyt...@gmail.com] On > Please note that Apache does not endorse or guarantee any > copy of AOO not > downloaded from an AOO site. Is not it better to say that in general there is no guarantee it, no matter where the download comes from? (Or do I mi

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-29 Thread Donald Whytock
Hi Luis... Thank you for your concern. However, since Apache OpenOffice is free to distribute and re-distribute, it's considered legal to sell it on Ebay, inasmuch as it's a sale of a CD/DVD that happens to have AOO on it. Please note that Apache does not endorse or guarantee any copy of AOO not

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-27 Thread Jorg Schmidt
Hello, > -Original Message- > From: luis e [mailto:didakti...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 1:35 AM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Openoffice is being sold on ebay > > To whom it may concern: > > I found out that there are sellers in ebay selling CDs with

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

2013-11-27 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I thought it was fine for someone to sell a disc with OO installed. I think that the seller is overstating the compatibility, however. On 11/27/2013 07:34 PM, luis e wrote: To whom it may concern: I found out that there are sellers in ebay selling CDs with Openoffice. You can see some exampl