On 12/22/2012 03:46 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
One of the ways that sites that offer downloads of Apache OpenOffice
(or OpenOffice.org) often do is:
(1) Don't acknowledge that the trademarks are the Apache Software
Foundation's.
(2) Make use of the project's and ASF's resources to offer free
support and other downloads.
They simply hide as legitimate sites. One example is
openoffice.us.com.
One thing that we can do to get in the way of this is keep a list of
these domains and when web requests are referred from them we can
take users to a warning page where we can explain the situation, help
users get to legitimate resources and let these providers know how to
properly reference trademarks and make their offering distinct from
Apache OpenOffice.
Well failing other proposals/solutions, this might be a good idea. Is
this implemented at the web server setup level or ???? I'm not familiar
with this. Can this be done with a config file that we maintain so as
not to overburden the infrastructure folks?
Perhaps there is something that can be done with Google to have them
downgrade search terms for OpenOffice for specific URLs.
Regards, Dave
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