Legally speaking, if you're using someone else's trademark to sell your product, then you are violating trademark law. That is only if your product is different from the trademark product.
If your product is the same, then you may be violating copyright laws. But that's not the case with FF anyway. So you are a distributor/reseller of the product and resellers have their margins.
Personally, I think selling FF for $10 on CDs is a great idea. Private enterprise can increase the adoption of FF (and other open source software) and they should be adequately compensated for that. Remember, they may be selling to your grandma who probably will never even hear about FF otherwise. There is effort involved in burning software to a CD and seeking out grandmothers to sell it to (and making their online experience more secure).
They've been pretty rude in their rebuttals to legal threats http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php, which is OK coz it was legal then.
But what happens to the website now ?
I'd hate to see this website shut down. Oops, will this post be held against me - 7 years from now, the way they are going after Cohen ?
Who blocks Google Ads? Really?
Can you do that? How do you block those annoying little pieces of crappy text that has become so ubiquitous every website has it?
If I want a yellowpages for the internet, I'll search for my own information.
If I'd want to view ads I'd want to view something really interesting and creative. And Google ads just dont make the cut.
I use Adblock but I dont know how Google Ads can be blocked. What's the filter to use?
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Legally speaking, if you're using someone else's trademark to sell your product, then you are violating trademark law. That is only if your product is different from the trademark product.
If your product is the same, then you may be violating copyright laws. But that's not the case with FF anyway. So you are a distributor/reseller of the product and resellers have their margins.
Personally, I think selling FF for $10 on CDs is a great idea. Private enterprise can increase the adoption of FF (and other open source software) and they should be adequately compensated for that. Remember, they may be selling to your grandma who probably will never even hear about FF otherwise. There is effort involved in burning software to a CD and seeking out grandmothers to sell it to (and making their online experience more secure).
They've been pretty rude in their rebuttals to legal threats http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php, which is OK coz it was legal then. But what happens to the website now ? I'd hate to see this website shut down. Oops, will this post be held against me - 7 years from now, the way they are going after Cohen ?
Who blocks Google Ads? Really? Can you do that? How do you block those annoying little pieces of crappy text that has become so ubiquitous every website has it? If I want a yellowpages for the internet, I'll search for my own information. If I'd want to view ads I'd want to view something really interesting and creative. And Google ads just dont make the cut. I use Adblock but I dont know how Google Ads can be blocked. What's the filter to use?