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Journal by GigsVT on Thursday April 17, 2003 @02:09PM

A company named Luxuriousity run by Gregg Collins is apparently rebranding well known open source projects and selling them on Ebay. He gives no indications as to the original title of the software, and he even goes as far as to claim, 'Be careful who you buy from, only Luxuriosity offers a complete package including full support and refund services.' and 'We are a licensed Community distributor.'

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GPL violation? (Score:2)

by FuzzyBad-Mofo ( 184327 ) writes:

I don't see any mention of either source code or GPL licence on his "products", but we've seen sleazy software houses co-opting GPL programs before. (I'm thinking of Morpheous Vs Gnucleus here, but there are probably others.)

At any rate, this punk deserves a bitchslap for slapping his name on OpenOffice.org and the Gimp..
- Re:GPL violation? (Score:2)
  
  by GigsVT ( 208848 ) writes:
  
  Yeah, I don't know if it is a violation or not. It's kinda sleezy either way, but he does at least claim to give source code for open office, but doesn't mention it on other products.
  
  The funny thing about this story:
  
  2003-03-25 14:11:08 Sleezy Site Rebrands Open Source (articles,software) (accepted)
  2003-04-17 18:08:54 Sleezy Site Rebrands Open Source (articles,software) (rejected)
  
  I submitted it once before, and it was accepted, but it never appeared on the site, even in any of the subcategories. Slashdo
haha (Score:2)

by mekkab ( 133181 ) writes:

Let's run him out of business and do what he's doing!

sighquietly(8) Apr-07-03 16:17:59 PDT (private) S
Complaint : you can get this for free at fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php
Response by greglosang - We had already refunded payment; Yes, this product is the Fink OpenSource CD

See, if you do any research at all (and I would, given 10-11 negatives) you can see that its opensource business.

This one was funny:

eclectic5(92) Feb-07-03 12:45:44 PST 2300571037 S
Complaint : Malicious softwa

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