See attached forwarded message. Someone is selling FlightGear on ebay.
This time there is no mention of our project name, they have changed the
name and are calling it "Pro Aircraft Flight Simulator". In addition, they
are using the same sleazy tactics of selling a digital download, not actual
media ... for all I know, they tell their suckers/customers to go download
it from our own server after the buyer pays the money.
I don't know if we can keep the grass clear of all the weeds here, but I
wonder if we have a large volume of people report this fraudulent ad to
ebay, if they might do something. Ebay is heavily slanted towards sellers
rights, so I think we would need a pretty big ground swell here to get their
attention.
Perhaps a little "question for the seller" message wouldn't hurt either ...
but I would caution that we need to be professional, honest, and fair in our
dealings here. We can't stoop down to this persons level, we can't make
unfounded claims, we can't make stupid threats, or it just turns into a WWF
match and no one can win.
Curt.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Jun 14, 2007 8:30 AM
Subject: Flight Gear being sold on ebay
Curt,
Noticed someone selling what sure looks like Flight Gear on Ebay – not
calling it Flight Gear of course…thought you'd be interested, hopefully you
can shut the clown down. Here's a link to one of the auctions:
http://cgi.ebay.com/PRO-Aircraft-Flight-Sim-Simulator-Bonus-Planes_W0QQitemZ300120813715QQihZ020QQcategoryZ80336QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem
If that link doesn't work, it's item# 300120813715
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http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
http://www.flightgear.org
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