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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Lindows
From:       "Michael Marcucio" <michaelmarcucio () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2002-04-09 18:10:24
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did they even release the product yet? i'm sure when it is released the 
source that needs to be made available will be..
mike

>From: Mikael Hedberg <hedberg@novasphere.net>
>Reply-To: koffice@mail.kde.org
>To: koffice@mail.kde.org
>Subject: Re: Lindows
>Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:49:50 +0200
>
>Robert Shade wrote:
>>Hi all,
>
>Hi,
>
>>	I was looking through that (in)famous Lindows website today and noticed 
>>that
>>the office suite that they have in their click-N-run site is Koffice!  
>>They
>>are repackaging Koffice under another name saying that it is worth 
>>hundreds
>>of dollars but are saying they are doing everyone a favor by giving it 
>>away
>>for free.  Some of the screenshots are even ripped right from the Koffice 
>>web
>>page.
>
>Some of the screenshots contain the same text as the koffice homepage
>ones, yes. But here's the "info" link:
>
>http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products.php?id=10&pg=specs
>
>... which clearly states that it's a KWord derivate... it also says
>"link to source code", but there is no such link.
>
> > Can anything be done about this?  They are not giving the source out
>>which they probably had to modify to give it its new name. I know at least
>>some of Koffice is GPL, so isn't this a huge GPL violation?  I just wanted 
>>to
>>give all of you Koffice developers a heads up on what is happening to your
>>code.
> >
>>The site is:  http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products.php
>
>I guess it would make a GPL violation... chances are that since you
>haven't found the info link, you might not have found the source code
>either, even though it's there.
>
>I will take a closer look at it to see if i can find the source code.
>
>Regards,
>Mikael Hedberg
>(new filter developer btw, even if i havent made much noise on the list
>about it)
>




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