Daniel Winje wrote:
hi there, I just wanted to let you fine people over at openoffice.org to
know that there are people out there trying to make money in your name.
how do i know this? well i was sufring the net and looking for a new edition
of openoffice when i i came over this site witch was telling you how good
openoffice is and sutch (witch i allready know)
and they posted a link to a download (by all means this is quite normal,
witch was my thoughs at the time) so i klicked on the link and starte the
download witch was described to be 141 mb but was only 665kb or something,
odd..... then i scaned it for virus and sutch, all ok and then i opened it
to find out that it was a downloader (never seen an openoffice downloader
before) and my thought was oh well ok, this is new, so i klicked my way
through it and then it asked me to send a text message to 1963 with the
message MAP so that i would get a code to unlock the download.....
Thing is that it costs you 40 kr (says so in the downloader) to send the
message, about 4 € if 1€ = 10 kr (not sure at the moment). SOOOOO, what the
fuck? hehe
Could not see that you in any way had agreed to it, so i thought i would
lett you know :)
heres a link to the site: http://studio-no.net/openoffice.php
its in norwegian sadly.
any how,
Thanks for your time.
-Daniel Winje
Well, it seems like it is valid page. Reply from the ooo-dev list says:
"Let me try:
- I've downloaded the file without that someone wanted to have money or
a registration from me.
- The mirror "http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/"; where the download comes from is
an officoal mirror of the (old) OOo project.
- The MD5 sum is exactly the same as if you would download the file from
here:
http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/localized/nb/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_Win_x86_install-wJRE_nb.exe
- The text says: "Lisens: Freeware"
OK, it's not the correct license but you can get indeed the software for
free.
At the moment I don't see a problem."
If there is a charge it is legal, the files are from a valid OOo mirror
site, the file has not been tampered with so no virus.
If anything changes I will post back.
Andy
New home for OpenOffice.org:
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/
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