4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
6:15 p.m.
Well, it seems that people aren't buying, the only reason why he's
selling audacity is that its cross platform, I actually don't think you'll
see this sort of thing happen with linux only audio apps, because apps
like audacity come built into all major distros. Also he's only charging
$9, so its potentially arguable that he's just charging for the labor to
burn a cd for someone, but what's more problematic is how he tries to
re-brand, or attempts to make it look like his company has written the
software, like he's selling openoffice, and calling it "Luminosity
Office", that's a big problem, because its one thing to be a software
distributor who sells software and src on cdrom (like redhat) and another
to re-brand someone else's software and just sell re-branded binaries,
that's stealing.
But if you look at this case he's taking only the mac and windows versions
of the software and then sells on cdrom for $10, but even at that price no
one is buying.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Dave Phillips wrote:
Brian Redfern wrote:
I don't know, if you're selling people
audacity on cdrom, as long as you
include the source I wouldn't think its illegal, I don't know why anyone
would buy it on cd, but notice that he didn't get any bids, and now that
its relisted, there's still no bids.
I checked this out too, and it is disturbing. It's also, as Patrick
suggested, an example of a likely scenario in the near future as Linux
audio apps become increasingly sophiticated and usable under more
professional conditions. It's true that there's little that can be done
to avoid this scenario, but I believe that community opprobrium (i.e.
verbal torches and pitchforks) can do some good in such a case. Alas,
eBay doesn't make it easy for a non-member to add a comment to a sale item.
I'm thinking some not very nice thoughts about Luminousity right now...
Best,
== dp