This scam makes the discussion rounds every few months. Short of legal action, which I'd assume would have been done years ago if it were possible, the next best option would be simple public education. Most of the documented talk about luxuriousity takes place in forums and lists like this. If one were to google the company and find a nice, clean website that explained what the "product" is and where the software really comes from, even perhaps going so far as to provide instructional help for installing the applications separately, it would be quite obvious. That would go the farthest to protect the real open source projects. Joe Public will not read through long forum posts' text to figure it out, and the time it would take an enduser to figure it all out is probably worth a lot more than $13 to buy luxuriousity. That's really all luxuriousity sells: packaging. Open source that, and there is no product. --Kevin
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/17/05 10:20 PM >>> Hello. Having Googled this issue, I discovered that this fellow has been seriously cheesing off folks for a while now. Among many of the mailing lists talking about this ... http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2005-March/009954.html -- Travis. On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 21:55 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote: > Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > Does anyone know what technology underlies Luxurosity's MP3 karaoke > > ripper? I'd like to use it, but I'll be damned if I will support > > Luxurosity, which doesn't give back to the community at all. > > > > In fact, I would like to know what the technology is so that I can > > spread the word and undermine Luxurosity's selfish efforts. > > > > http://www.luxuriousity.com/karaokedownload.htm > > > Wow, this is unreal. > > http://www.luxuriousity.com/photopd.htm > > They have taken like all of the software on the openCD and are marketing > it. They have OOo, Gimp, Audacity, etc... > > Is there any way to stop this. I know not legally, but what can we do as > a community to redirect consumers? >
