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Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice

Posted by kdawson on from the can't-stand-the-competition dept.

thefickler writes "Australia's largest Internet service provider Telstra BigPond has removed OpenOffice from its unmetered file download area following the launch of its own, free, hosted, office application, BigPond Office. The removal of OpenOffice was brought to TECH.BLORGE's attention by a reader, who complained to Telstra BigPond's support department about no longer being able to download OpenOffice updates. The support people were quite open about why OpenOffice was no longer available, i.e. because it was perceived to be competitive with BigPond Office."

4 of 336 comments (clear)

  1. Storm, meet tea-cup by tagishsimon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because it's so difficult to type http://www.openoffice.org/ into your browser. Slow new day?

  2. Re:Why is this news ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I beg to differ. If the ISPs were allowed to do this then we would no longer be allowed to freely surf the net.

  3. Still Available by Derek+the+Donutmaker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This story is not quite true, given the software is still available from Telstra, just harder to find

  4. Re:http://www.openoffice.org/ by Broken+Toys · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I live near Hungary and they don't have such restrictive ISP policies.

    Sorry about your airline seating arrangements. I'm still trying to figure out what they have to do with the topic but apparently they're of significant interest to you.