Onto the bad article of the day:

NewsForge.com completely misses the point with their article "Accused Murder (sic) peddled OpenOffice.org online"

Suspected murderer Neil Entwistle was trying to sell OpenOffice.org on auction Web site eBay just days before he allegedly shot and killed his wife and infant child.

Entwistle sold software and a get-rich-quick scheme under the eBay identity "srpublications." His eBay profile shows a string of negative feedback from users who never received the software for which they paid, beginning around January 6, 2006. Most of the unresolved transactions involved what Entwistle called genuine, legal versions of popular software packages by Adobe and Macromedia. But one of the last positive feedbacks Entwistle received was for a $.99 copy of OpenOffice.org in a Dutch auction on December 30, 2005. He only sold one copy out of a hundred.

Entwistle, a native of Great Britain, lived in Massachusetts with his wife and nine-month-old daughter until the time of their deaths, when he fled to his parents home in York. He was arrested and charged with murder last week and may be extradited to the United States. Entwistle had been running the eBay business and two Web sites, srpublications.co.uk and millionmaker.co.uk, where he sold books about penis enlargement and how to make money on the Internet.

Really... while it's completely unethical to sell off software that's normally distributed gratis, even though the license allows for it, I think that worrying too much about the sale of OpenOffice, with the rest of the circumstances involved, is really missing the point.

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