Re: criticism about hosting download packages

On 25 February 2011 09:47, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Susanne Ebrecht <miracee@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> Let me give you some background:
>>
>> Fishing for customers is illegal in Germany. You will find it in our
>> unfair competition law.
>
> You'd better tell Suse/Novell about that then - I'm sure they'll be
> pleased to be told that the form on the front page of their website
> (which comes and goes - might need a few refreshes) is illegal, or
> that they can't require registration to download SLED and other
> products. I guess they just don't spend enough on their lawyers.
>
> http://www.suse.de/

Apple "fish for addresses" too on their German site, except their
download doesn't happen automatically:
http://www.apple.com/de/itunes/download/

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