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Hi Jean-Francois,

Yes i do agree with you that libO should never link to such website that
would repackage libO, which download.com and filehippo.com
(softpedia.com as well) do not do. On these sites, OpenOffice and
Kingsoft Office are ranked higher than LibO.

Jay Philips

On 05/25/2014 09:45 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
Jay,

Le 25/05/2014 04:52, Jay Philips a écrit :
I think the marketing team should come up with a strategy improve
libreoffice's popularity on download sites like download.com and
filehippo.com, as many users discover new software from sites like this.
I've seen some software makers direct downloads of their software to
such sites to increase its popularity.

The problem I see with such thirdparty websites (at least here in
France) is that they often repackage the software they offer for
download. The repackaging unfortunately adds some unwanted "goodies",
such as IE toolbars or Firefox addons. If the user starts the install in
automatic mode (almost all do), these things are silently installed and
suddenly the user PC becomes cluttered with what I consider virus-like
items.

As a hotline employee, I very often get questions about the PCs being
suddenly veeeeery slow or some unwanted websites opening when starting IE.

So, unless these sites change their way of "promoting" software, I
wouldn't go this route at all.

YMMV


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