Linked by Kroc Camen on Tue 20th Oct 2009 16:11 UTC
"In the discussion about the best way to manage the Mozilla trademarks, the problem of sites charging people to download Firefox is often mentioned. However, not everyone has come across such a site. For your ediification, I present 'A Tour Of A "Pay to Download Firefox" Site', with detailed analysis and screenshots. You'll be pleased to hear we have recently been having some success using trademark law with preliminary injunctions and domain name disputes against such sites."
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RE: What about the people
by Doc Pain on Tue 20th Oct 2009 19:57
in reply to "What about the people"
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That cannot believe that software is free. They pay for Games, For Office, for Windows, for Anti-Virus, for...
But not here in Germany. :-)
"I can't see software, why should I pay for it?" is a common attitude, even in educational or corporate settings - I've seen it myself.
Its just to bad that many people just don't take the time to care.
Yes... obviously, that's the reason of many (the most?) problems across the Internet, such as viruses, spam, data espionage...
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I’m trying but it’s hard to feel sympathetic for folk who whip out their credit card before using their brain.
This behaviour is forced by the strong misbelief that "the computer will know what he does". Furthermore, there seem to be people who judge the computer's "intelligence" higher than their own one's (allthoug their own intelligence must be high as a mountain because they own a computer); the PC isn't only personalized, it's personified, and that's why it's an authority that you have to trust. Of course, there's no difference between the PC, the Internet, a website, the desktop and "Explorer"...
No, seriously. If the computer says: "Enter your credit card number here", there are lots of people willing to enter their credit card number here, just to see the dancing elephants or the squeaking squirrels.
It hasn't need to be a browser download. It can be a "free" service that does a pupil's homework, lets mommy download cookie recipes and daddy to play a nice game of poker. This has to be done *now*, so entering some personal data is done very fast, but the contract ("by signing in to our service, you enter a 6 months contract with 15,99 Euro per month, to be paid right after signing in" or the like) isn't even read. Afterwards, "victims" start crying out loud in german TV shows.
The most important thing is that thinking (or just plain reading) takes time. Users don't have time. They want the result, and they want it now. It is that simple.
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2006-02-22
I’m trying but it’s hard to feel sympathetic for folk who whip out their credit card before using their brain. I just Googled Firefox and in the first three pages I couldn’t find a pay for Firefox site – is this difficult??
I can feel sympathy for folk duped by bogus AVs but this is just plain stupid.
Edited 2009-10-20 16:52 UTC