I recently purchased a program on MP that was 2000 lindens. Not cheap! At first I really liked the program and would tell all my friends how well it worked. Well, one of my friends was quick to point out the program was available for free under another name. She gave me the link. So, I tried it, and she was correct. It not only does the same thing, it does it better. It does more and for free. Evidently this program has been around for a while. I was unaware of it. So this vendor in question has based their software off this free program. It's possible they've even stolen the idea, but I don't want to jump to conclusions.
So then I wrote the vendor and asked her what was up with that? I showed her the free program and she just said she'd look into it and get back to me. Well, she's not getting back to me, and now I see she's removed the program from MP altogether. Does that spell guilt? I can't be sure, but it sure looks suspicious.
Is there a law against copying something that's free and selling it for huge money? If not there should be. I'm not sure if this is actual fraud, but I definitely feel ripped off!
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I recently purchased a program on MP that was 2000 lindens. Not cheap! At first I really liked the program and would tell all my friends how well it worked. Well, one of my friends was quick to point out the program was available for free under another name. She gave me the link. So, I tried it, and she was correct. It not only does the same thing, it does it better. It does more and for free. Evidently this program has been around for a while. I was unaware of it. So this vendor in question has based their software off this free program. It's possible they've even stolen the idea, but I don't want to jump to conclusions.
So then I wrote the vendor and asked her what was up with that? I showed her the free program and she just said she'd look into it and get back to me. Well, she's not getting back to me, and now I see she's removed the program from MP altogether. Does that spell guilt? I can't be sure, but it sure looks suspicious.
Is there a law against copying something that's free and selling it for huge money? If not there should be. I'm not sure if this is actual fraud, but I definitely feel ripped off!
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