Re: [libreoffice-users] Isn't this wrong of the eBay seller

One other thing, some of those vendors were charging for "support" and 
sending their customers to the mail lists, such as this one, for it.  
That would be fraud!

On 5/7/25 11:01, James Knott wrote:
> On 5/6/25 20:10, Roger Dodson wrote:
> > I was looking for an old database I was using long ago on eBay. One 
> > of the items found was LibreOffice. A seller was selling LibreOffice 
> > for $12.95.
> > Should they be doing this? It seems to me he is profiting off of your 
> > work. Also, they are taking advantage of people that are unaware 
> > LibreOffice is free.
>
> Are they still doing that?  OO is kind of dead these days. Regardless, 
> there was nothing to stop someone from packaging OO or LO and selling 
> the CD, etc..  Years ago, in the days of much slower Internet, that 
> was a service to some people, who couldn't download the software.  As 
> long as they aren't making changes to the software, putting their own 
> brand on it, etc., they aren't doing anything wrong.
>
> BTW, one thing that did bother me was when IBM was sending out free 
> OS/2 Warp 3 CDs in magazines.  At computer shows you might find 
> someone who was selling the CDs, which was a violation of the license 
> terms.
>
> n.b. I used to be the OS/2 Product specialist at IBM Canada, in the 
> late 90s.  I was the top OS/2 support person in the country and used 
> to run the OS/2 version of StarOffice, which evolved into OpenOffice 
> and LibreOffice, on my home computer.


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