From: James Turner <zakal...@ma...> - 2010-11-12 13:37 > Just to re-iterate - the best defence is a good offence. Stop worrying about > FPS, and make FG > better (by contributing), or promoting it better. It's essentially a > marketing scam, not a competing > product. (The current flightgear.org website doesn't do us many favours, > here). If people are > determined to throw money away because 'free' stuff isn't as good, I ain't > gonna stop them - > they're going to get scammed sooner or later.
Fully agreed. In RL, if you notice anyone getting away with simply reselling your (or his own) product at an excessively higher price - you know you have a really bad marketing problem. Since why don't people buy from the cheaper source (in our case, even download for free?). So, a major part of the problem is that FG isn't known enough. The guy runs many websites, adds product reviews, creates a facebook page, ... - and probably more. And some sites don't even look so trashy as his main scam page, for example: http://www.realflightsimulator.net I guess we could seriously hit his scam sales by raising more attention to FlightGear itself. Then again, it certainly looks as if he's investing a major effort in creating all these scam websites. Google shows tons of websites promoting his scam. Btw, he's actually also running a site "flightprosimscam.com"... Also, not sure if this was already mentioned. The person isn't only selling FG. He does the same with a lot of other GPLed software. Again, Google shows many similar sites - all with the same contact address in NZ. And I guess we'd find even more if we looked closer. Certainly looks like he's making his living from scams like this... http://www.flightprosim.com/disclaimer/ http://3dastronomer.net/terms-conditions http://www.3dboatdesign.com/disclaimer/ http://www.easybudgeter.com/disclaimer/ http://www.filesquasher.com/disclaimer/ http://singing-superstar.com/disclaimer/ cheers, Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
