[LAU] amazon reseller of floss audio software?

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 14:51:01 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:16 PM, michael noble <looplog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> Phoronix pointed out that an Amazon seller called Butterfly Media was
>> reselling some floss projects like scribus and inkscape. I just checked out
>> their "product" on amazon and found this:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Butterfly-Media-Music-Editing-Tool-kit/dp/B0040BF442/ref=pd_sim_sbs_sw_h__4
>>
>> From the product description, it seem they are trying to sell mixxx. Then
>> again, the screenshots clearly show Ardour, LMMS and mixxx. Whichever way,
>> it seems some questionable business is going on.
>
> the deception consists of the pairing of this line:
>
>    Platform: Windows XP / Vista / 7
>
> with those screenshots, unless they are also providing lin4win or
> whatever its called.

Maybe it's a Live CD with Linux.


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