Manfred Bergmann wrote: > Actually I really don't undersatand why these people do not come here > and tell us what they want to do. To package our software and > distrubute it for some money. There would be no problem and we could > support that if done in the right way. > > Maybe they are not aware of what needs to be done according to GPL. > Some people hear "Open Source" and think they can do whatever they > want with it.
The company's intent is to draw people in with promises of $3 for 4 CDs of software. Of the initial 4, you only get to keep 2. The other 2 have to be sent back or you will be billed $15 per disc. Then every couple months, then send you another 4 discs and bill you $15 per disc if you don't return them. The previous incarnation, ThinkAll (the one shut down by the FTC), was shut down because they weren't even waiting the promised period before charging people's cards for the $15/disc. They were also making it inordinately difficult to cancel the subscription, so they just kept sending you these junk CDs. The company's intent is not to be an internet software store. The intent is to get credit card numbers and start charging $60 per subscriber every 1-2 months for freeware that would take 20 minutes to download on a 56k modem, in most cases, in the hopes that people don't read licenses or their credit card statements. It's unquestionably a scam, though I'm betting they're trying much harder to avoid consumer fraud this time so that the FTC doesn't shut them down again. --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
