Ripping off other’s work
Dustsniper is / was ripping off an open-source project (JBidWatcher) and reselling it as his own on ebay.
The developer had this to say:
“If you have purchased a program calling itself ‘SnipeIt’ on
eBay, by a seller ‘dustsniper’, you have paid someone who is
stealing my work and reselling it for his own profit.
I’ve spent more than six years on JBidwatcher, and this has
happened a few times, but I usually find out sooner, and they
agree to stop. This person has been doing it since at least
May, and has made over $2,000 at my expense.
I can’t really express how deeply used this makes me feel. I have
no desire to continue fighting with eBay, figuring out their
ever-more complex changes, for this persons profit. I know
a great many people use and trust JBidwatcher because of its
open source nature, but open source is also subject to just
this kind of predation.
It’s not about money; it never has been with JBidwatcher, which
is why I make it available free. It’s about the sense of
violation, and the feeling that I’ve worked hard on my own
project for what ends up being someone else’s profit. I haven’t
made a decision on what to do, but end-of-life-ing
JBidwatcher is high on the list. Six years was a good run.“
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