hi guys. im new, im from spain.
the other day, i could detect several guys in ebay selling your work under the flight simulator logo. they are taking economical benefits by your work.
you can check it.
have a nice day
I don't see any false advertising or attempts at tricking buyers into thinking that what they are buying is something else. Everything is clearly labelled.
And I'm not sure where the A380 picture over the water with a strong reflection comes from - to me it looks like they actually used the GIMP water effect. So slightly misleading, but nothing illegal.
putting the FlightGear store onto Ebay hasn't happened yet as the effort outweighs the small profits.
Maybe it's time to get the official FlightGear store up on Ebay, Amazon, etc.
agoyo2yk wrote in Wed Jan 15, 2020 1:39 am:hi guys. im new, im from spain.
the other day, i could detect several guys in ebay selling your work under the flight simulator logo. they are taking economical benefits by your work.
you can check it.
have a nice day
bugman wrote in Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:55 am:It doesn't seem too unreasonable to me. Well, selling a download link for about 3 GBP is a bit iffy. But the company PixelClassics also sells DVDs and printed manuals. And they do that for FlightGear, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and Gimp. I don't see any false advertising or attempts at tricking buyers into thinking that what they are buying is something else. Everything is clearly labelled.
The screenshots they use seem to be taken from the picture of the month, youtube videos, etc. I doubt there is a copyright violation there. And I'm not sure where the A380 picture over the water with a strong reflection comes from - to me it looks like they actually used the GIMP water effect. So slightly misleading, but nothing illegal. They could also have their own fork of the FlightGear repositories and make their own branches and tags - i.e. a 2020 version based on next from this year. That might be what their 'special' download is.
So anyone who buys this gets exactly what they paid for. Nothing is hidden in the product descriptions. They were not ripped off.
Of course the buyer could download directly from SourceForge or use the official FlightGear store. All profits would then help pay for the FlightGear infrastructure instead. If a FlightGear contributor thinks there is a profitable market to sell on Ebay (or other online stores), you should talk directly to curt about setting up the official FlightGear store there. Or better still, start a serious discussion about this on the developers mailing list. My guess is that putting the FlightGear store onto Ebay hasn't happened yet as the effort outweighs the small profits.
Regards,
Edward
tdammers wrote in Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:21 pm:The font looks suspiciously similar to the one used for FSX though. And with the upcoming release of FS20, an unsuspecting buying might actually fall for it. Replace the word "FlightGear" with "Microsoft", and it's 100% an ad for MSFS20. So the words are technically correct, but the whole thing is still misleading.
Isaak wrote in Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:35 pm:...for me it's clear that they're using the MS FS 2020 hype to earn some money on unsuspecting buyers.
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