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 > > >
