Comments on: Selling Blender on eBay

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:15:55 +0000

JC, what a stupid arguement. There is no MORAL justification for selling something that you know everybody can get for free. Since there is really no legal arguement against this, besides all the pictures they use, which are all used without permission I'm sure, this is more a MORAL arguement.

Do the right thing.

By: Kernon

Kernon — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:51:08 +0000

Well, the point is that they are clearly not in compliance with the licensing rules.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:31:36 +0000

It's really weird to see the reaction of some people on this thread. This is exactly the point of open source. The GNU licence allows you to sell the software. FACT. Actually its encoraged. The more people benifit from the GNU software the more likely more people are to contribute back to it.

Sure if you are computer savy and have the skills to find new open source / GNU / free software you can get it. But just because some guy is selling it why should you be bitter about that? Remember there are a large number of people that can only just about use a computer to visit ebay. Why not introduce these guys to GNU software? If someone is stupid enough to pay for something that is free they will. But once they see that it could have been free they will learn and 'hopefully' find the next piece of software from somewhere else, benifiting another OS project. Everyone wins. And this guy is only making a few dollars for the service, good on him i say. (wish it had been my idea).

Bottom line. It will always be open source, and because it is everyone can; within few rules; be able to do whatever they want with it. That is great don't you think? Gettig bitter because someone actuly did something with it is kinda against the grain of things. no?

By: rubicon

rubicon — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:11:07 +0000

I found this:

http://cgi.ebay.de/3D-Renderprogramm-HAMMER-Software-Grafikprogramm-KLASSE_W0QQitemZ260100090348QQcategoryZ21924QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i have no ebay account to do anything, but this article appears several times in the list.
It is quite disguised but it seems to me like blender.

go and get him

rubi

By: Jason_Smith

Jason_Smith — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:28:42 +0000

What the heck!! This totally takes out the whole point of 'Open Source'. It's people like that, that make me mad.. GRRR…. lol… we should get these fools!

By: Kernon

Kernon — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:07:32 +0000

Another way to hit these guys is to report them to PayPal. Ebay owns PayPal so…

By: Kernon

Kernon — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:03:43 +0000

@ASAP
I left a message on the Orbiter web forum about this. Also, if you go to http://www.apexsoftware.com you find what appears to be a dummy web site with no real links.

By: ASAP

ASAP — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:20:32 +0000

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160092139003

this is also from the friendly people at Apex software. But unfortunately for them is software is NOT open source and not redistributable(although it is free ware from http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html and an excellent sim) so if you're interested in taking this guy down this is probably the way to go.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:51:08 +0000

@Joeri: no they don't. All those links automatically get a rel="nofollow" attribute indicating that Google shouldn't follow them. It's an anti-spammer measure.

By: Höhrer

Höhrer — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:34:45 +0000

@Jasper:
I also think your idea is the best way of spoiling the attempts from the black sheep on ebay. Everybody with an ebay account can just offer blender for free and link to the homepage, point out the licenses and ideally also direct the users towards some documentation and introductions guides. … template anybody?

Werner