Re: [Spam] Re: People trying to make money on openoffice.org

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From: "RA Brown" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Daniel Winje" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:23 PM
Subject: [Spam] [discuss] Re: People trying to make money on openoffice.org


> 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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