Can I burn Open Office to a CD and sell the CD

**warbread** · April 22nd, 2008

Blech. Who would want to download OO, let alone pay for it? I recently had to type up a paper complete with graphs. Between the hidden options, buggy interface and random crashes, I think I would have been more productive if I had just beat my face with a hammer.

**drascus** · April 22nd, 2008

yeah totally. go for it. I think it might be nice if you donate some of that money back to Ooo.org Project they deserve their credit. But yeah if you are taking your time to burn CD's have packaging and everything and people will pay then by all means do it.

**drascus** · April 22nd, 2008

Between the hidden options, buggy interface and random crashes, I think I would have been more productive if I had just beat my face with a hammer.

From what I understand many interface issues and stability issues have been fixed for version 3.0. I have seen it called the MS word killer in many Tech blogs. Of course Anyone can get the source code and try to fix the bugs for themselves and modify the interface to make it more friendly. Not all together practical but definitely possible.

**smoker** · April 22nd, 2008

Originally Posted by Joeb454

If the person doesn't have a high-speed 'net connection - then what.

If I remember rightly, the OpenOffice image is around 230-250Mb, which is quite a lot to download on a 56k dial-up connection

you can order a cd from the website:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/c...dex.html#cdrom

for the OP, from the link above:

Would you like to Be a Distributor too? We welcome anyone who would like to distribute OpenOffice.org in their local community. For further information,

**retrow** · April 22nd, 2008

Originally Posted by drascus

yeah totally. go for it. I think it might be nice if you donate some of that money back to Ooo.org

Thats precisely what I was gonna say. You can sell the CDs for $2 instead of $1,and donate a part of it back to the Open office project. I think they need any and every kind of help and support anyone can provide.

**daverich** · April 22nd, 2008

same thing happens to Audacity, an open source audio editing program.

Folks sell it on ebay.

It doesn't really sit right with me, but then the benefits of open source faaar outweigh the problems of folks making jerks of themselves.

Kind regards

Dave Rich