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An opening for OpenOffice.org

Posted Sep 11, 2003 8:01 UTC (Thu) by beejaybee (guest, #1581)
Parent article: An opening for OpenOffice.org

Guys, could you please post this article somewhere you don't need to be a subscriber to read it. I'd very much like to get this up to my management ASAP but unfortunately we don't have a corporate subscription.

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Posted Sep 11, 2003 10:12 UTC (Thu) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]

Then you need to wait a week or buy a month's worth of corporate subscription. LWN has to earn a living somehow.

An opening for OpenOffice.org

Posted Sep 11, 2003 11:12 UTC (Thu) by cross (guest, #13601) [Link]

You could also bring this up with your management using the quite detailed examination at GROKLAW

Excerpted from "Why Linux Is Conquering the World", (Sept. 8th)
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/09/08.html

"Then contrast Microsoft's newest offering, its Windows Rights
Management Services for Windows Server 2003, which it has, unbelievably
enough, named RMS. Here is the overview. This is the method of
controlling what people can do with documents, whether they can open
them, share, read, change, copy, print, or keep them forever. Yes, it
will erase email and documents. No doubt that idea was born from the
antitrust trial.

"Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition users can only view RMS-protected
documents and emails. The Professional version users can both create and
access RMS-protected docs. But they have to pay. First, you have to buy
Microsoft's product line, end to end, and then you have to get your seat
licenses, and if you want to talk to anyone outside your organization,
well, that costs extra, lots extra"

An opening for OpenOffice.org + [OT] suggestion

Posted Sep 11, 2003 13:57 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

What about making a Copy Paste of part of the article and pass it on to your maanagement.

I sometimes do that for some friends, in order to convince to subscribe to LWN, I pass them titles ant/or extracts of interesting articles, then put the link underneath, with a mention such as "available now to subscribers, or in one week if you're not. Subcsribe it's worth it!".

I would like to know what LWN think about this. Perhaps they could endorse that method with a 'refer that article' option. The user would select part of the article, and LWN would send a mail from the registered user to a specified address with a text like:

<USER> wanted to share this piece of news with you.

<LINK to page>
Full article available now to subscribers, or in one week if you're not. Subcsribe it's worth it!

Comments?

An opening for OpenOffice.org + [OT] suggestion

Posted Sep 12, 2003 4:35 UTC (Fri) by miallen (guest, #10195) [Link]

That's copyright infringment! Fortunately once LWN has IRM installed on their servers you will not be permitted to do that.

An opening for OpenOffice.org + [OT] suggestion

Posted Sep 12, 2003 8:47 UTC (Fri) by jwharmanny (guest, #971) [Link]

Does anyone know by what license LWN articles are covered? I didn't find anything apart from the Eklektix copyright message at the end of the page. Are readers allowed to copy the content?

(No, I didn't plan to copy-paste the weekly edition to slashdot. ;) I'm just curious.)