Maybe it just is me but this seems wrong… you can get all of this software for free and yet people are profiting off of this by buying outdated software on a 40 cent piece of plastic…
Does anyone know if this violates eBay’s #tos as they technically are selling a “physical product”…
@MIfoodie I can't speak for all open source licenses, but GPL 3 includes the following "Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things."
@MIfoodie I knowledge I probably wouldn't buy such a CD. That said, if it means somebody doesn't have to hunt the program down, they might consider the time savings or the curation to be worth the price. Then again they just might not know any better.
@MIfoodie People did this in the late 90s and early 2000s back when downloading stuff over a modem took very large amounts of times. I’m going off of very vague memories here but I believe back then it was considered legal (citation needed). People would bundle stuff or add printed manuals etc..
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