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| Thread ID: 104268 | 2009-10-22 05:01:00 | Hmmmm..... | xyz823 (13649) | PC World Chat |
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| 822968 | 2009-10-22 05:01:00 | www.trademe.co.nz Selling Free software (that is, software under GPL or similar licenses approved by the FSF) is not only legal but strongly encouraged. www.fsf.org Having said that, selling Free software under false pretense such as pretending that it is commercially licensed or a 'retail version' is pretty dodgy. Trademe should not remove the sales as 'copyright infringing', because they (probably) aren't. But they'd be within their rights to remove the sales on the basis that the items are being misrepresented in a way that means buyers are being defrauded. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 822969 | 2009-10-22 05:44:00 | Definition of a scam: anything good that you're not in on yourself.... :D Anyone who parts with their hard-earned for a great free program like Audacity deserves to be fleeced. They should return their computer to the shop as they are too stupid to use one. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 822970 | 2009-10-22 08:52:00 | Funnily enough id actually pay for audicity, dam good program | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 822971 | 2009-10-22 09:05:00 | People selling linux live CDs etc too. Hueybot: But knowing that its free, would you still buy it?:p |
Blam (54) | ||
| 822972 | 2009-10-22 09:07:00 | Well no lol but if I had to pay for it I would | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 822973 | 2009-10-22 09:11:00 | People selling linux live CDs etc too. Hueybot: But knowing that its free, would you still buy it?:p I remember buying a Ubuntu CD of Dick Smiths, for $5.00 maybe 5 years back. I couldn't be assed downloading it, burning it onto CD etc... |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 822974 | 2009-10-22 09:13:00 | Have to say a few of their auctions look... well a bit odd. Lots of audiobooks that are public domain. Perhaps Gutenburg rips? Though I suppose we should probably assume they aren't scamming people until we know better.... | GorCh (13021) | ||
| 822975 | 2009-10-22 09:20:00 | I thought it was quite common to sell copies of Linux. Perhaps somebody could give some details? | convair (13650) | ||
| 822976 | 2009-10-22 17:07:00 | Not illegal at all. As it's licensed under the GPL, it's perfectly acceptable to sell it, as technically what you're selling is the CD / Media and your time invested in downloading it etc. and not the software itself. Same goes for Linux Distro's - Nothing wrong with it. Funnily enough my parents purchased a CD with Audacity, GIMP, and several other open-source applications for $40 a while back. Even once I told them it was all open-source and readily available to download their response was "Thats OK, I wouldn't have known where to go to get it all and download it. It's more convenient this way". Dunno why they couldn't just give me the $40 and I'd have done it for them, I wouldn't have even charged for postage, but still ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 822977 | 2009-10-22 17:19:00 | Damn ! Wish I'd thought of that . |
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