[vox] Question about OSS downloads for a fee

Bill Broadley bill at broadley.org
Wed Feb 10 17:43:49 PST 2010


Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Someone just alerted me to Tux Paint's availability on
> an ecommerce site ("tradera.com", run by ebay).  I've seem
> it on ebay proper in the past, as well.
> 
> Apparently for 65kr (approx. USD$8.45) it looks like you
> can download Tux Paint.  Kind of a rip-off, considering it's
> available free-of-charge from the Tux Paint website,
> SourceForge.net, and countless other places.

I'd also worry about them including malware.



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