Buying MediaPortal from e-bay
Unfortunately there are numerous people out there making profit from MediaPortal by selling it on e-bay.
The unfortunate reality is that we cannot stop them. Under the GNU General Public Licence anyone can sell MediaPortal for whatever fee they wish.
General practice in this area is to usually charge enough to cover the cost and or some profit to donate to the source project to help development.
What is dissapointing is that these people selling MediaPortal never seem to 'donate' any funds or for that matter ask us if they can sell the product.
What you can do to help...
2. Complain to e-bay and reference this news article. Hopefully they will fight your case if the seller is charging too much for the software whilst offering no value-add.
To users who have already purchased MediaPortal all we can say is that we're dissapointed by these sellers actions but it is one of the unfortunate complications for providing 'free software'.
With free software, users don't have to pay the distribution fee in order to use the software. They can copy the program from a friend who has a copy, or with the help of a friend who has network access. Or several users can join together, split the price of one CD-ROM, then each in turn can install the software.
So with that please...
3. Pass MediaPortal onto your friends to try and learn and contribute to the project.
4. Send a letter to your local computer magazine publication for them to review the software and maybe even include it their magazine for more users to enjoy.
