1. OT: SoftMaker FreeOffice
- Posted by andi49 Dec 15, 2013
- 2014 views
- Last edited Dec 16, 2013
Hi
There is, like every year, a campain for advertising SoftMaker Office. http://www.loadandhelp.de/home-en.html
They offer a free Version (Linux/Windows) and are donating 10 EuroCent for every Download to http://www.betterplace.org/en
The Office Software is not crippled also it has not all the features off the Full Version.
They will asked for your email adress and send you a newsletter (this can be easily disabled)
I use the Full Version myself and it is very usefull on older Computers (it's small and fast and more compatible to .docx and .xlsx than LibreOffice)
Andreas
Edit:
The PDF i built in this thread http://openeuphoria.org/forum/123162.wc?last_id=123231 are built with SoftMaker Office
2. Re: OT: SoftMaker FreeOffice
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Dec 16, 2013
- 1909 views
What is the "free" licensing for this? I did not see any licensing info on the site.
-Greg
3. Re: OT: SoftMaker FreeOffice
- Posted by CoJaBo2 Dec 16, 2013
- 1878 views
What is the "free" licensing for this? I did not see any licensing info on the site.
-Greg
No license, no terms of use, no privacy policy on how they use the information they collect from you to download, and no documentation showing any actual donation other than some photos hotlinked off a random charity's website.
Yeah, this seems very legit.
4. Re: OT: SoftMaker FreeOffice
- Posted by andi49 Dec 16, 2013
- 1831 views
What is the "free" licensing for this? I did not see any licensing info on the site.
-Greg
No license, no terms of use, no privacy policy on how they use the information they collect from you to download, and no documentation showing any actual donation other than some photos hotlinked off a random charity's website.
Yeah, this seems very legit.
Hallo
The Company that offers the download is located in Germany there Hompage is here, http://www.softmaker.de/
As it is a German program, German law applies.
In the case of a Computerprogram it's the 'Urheberrechtsgesetz' (http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/)
(particular Part1 Section VIII)
So no separate Licens or EULA is needed. You can have an additional License but you don't have to.
On the other hand not every License or EULA is legal in Germany (mostly Microsoft EULA's have too much restrictions)
At least on the German Page it is written that they will send you advertiments and your Key for the program to your Email Adress.
(if you don't like this, you can still use 'Tor' and 10minutemail.com ;)
I think this is enough OT now :) (i just wanted to send a link, not start an OT discussusion
Andreas
5. Re: OT: SoftMaker FreeOffice
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Dec 17, 2013
- 1774 views
Yes, but Andreas, no good deed ever goes unpunished here!
Chris
