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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."

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  1. http://www.openoffice.org/ by stoolpigeon · · Score: -1, Redundant

    the fix for this is not a big deal - it fit in the subject field of this post.

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    1. Re:http://www.openoffice.org/ by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Redundant

      But wait, i now see the big deal which i missed before i posted, the key word here is 'unmetered'. I didn't realize that they were still sticking it to their users like the bad old days of the likes of genie and CompuServe dial-up, pay per use bandwidth.

      So, I guess downloading OO from somewhere else counts against your time and i assume costs money. Before they pulled it, it was free to fetch.

      sucks to be them.

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