I espeically love the generic business drok with his raised fist, that's funny stuff. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Rob wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 15:54, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > Have you seen what's happening to the audacity project? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2572777204&; > >category=15199 > > It's got to the point where they need legal help. The guy is > > making a few false statements like he has community support > > and is giving money back to the developers. > > I dunno, it's a tricky thing. If the guy were selling Audacity > CD's labeled as such on ebay, people would be calling for him to > be sued over trademark violations. The guy sells it under a > different name and people call for him to be sued under some > kind of misrepresentation thing. I think it's obnoxious that he > doesn't provide any kind of link back to the Audacity site (he > at least mentions Gimp and Openoffice by name) but until someone > actually ponies up for one of those CD's we won't know whether > he's actually violating the GPL. > > Or, for that matter, someone else's license, since he mentions > he's including other software and files on the disc. In that > way it strikes me as being just like all those shovelware > CD-ROMs in the early 90's that listed off all the shareware they > included without mentioning them by name. Only by running the > programs (and doing help about, if it didn't have a nag screen > or something) did you ever find out who wrote them. > > Anyway, his site, http://www.luxuriousity.com (I'd say that was > misspelled if it weren't a made-up word to begin with), is > hilarious, especially the overuse of stock clip art. I think > the best response to something like this is to provide a cheaper > competitive item on ebay whose proceeds really do benefit the > developers. Maybe start with the GnuWin II disc? (Note that > he's marketing it to Windows users primarily, not Linux users, > so going on ebay with a CD full of Linux software is really not > going to do anyone any good except in the sense that it might > promote the use of Linux a little.) > > Rob > >
