Downloading dev/openoffice/4.1.3 Windows Binaries

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

Developers who download the developer-binary .exe files for Windows may receive warnings that the programs have no frequency of being downloaded much and may be dangerous.  

This is a "reputation" warning by Internet Explorer, other browsers, and anti-malware software.  It is expected that these files have no meaningful reputation while in the developer-download state.  

It is appropriate to do three things:

 1. Ignore the warning.

 2. Then download the .asc, .md5, and .sha256 files and use them to verify the corresponding .exe that you download.

 3. After whatever testing you do with these, do not retain the files on your system if these do not become the release candidate that is approved for general distribution.  That's important.  Otherwise, any bugs you might detect later will not be against the official release and it is confusing because the filenames will not change.

 -- Dennis E. Hamilton
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