[KLUG Members] Open Office, database

[Jamie McCarthy]

admin@cruisenews.net (Paul VandenBosch) writes:

> I have been using Open Office at work and have found it to be
> almost a complete replacement for MS Office.

Strangely, the Business Software Alliance agrees with you :)


http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/28/1317244&tid=109

Your Rights Online: BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors
Posted by michael on Fri Feb 28, '03 09:26 AM

sqrt529 writes "A German university was accused by the BSA of
pirating MS Office, because they mirrored OpenOffice.org. The
scripts from the BSA only check for "Office" in the filename and
then automatically send out notices[0] to the ftp admins. Did any of
you get similar notices from the BSA?"

[0] http://distribution.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=581265&listName=dev