(Last edited March 4, 2008)

If you are not aware of how this company works (and I’m sure that many people aren’t), then I’d suggest you check out this posting from PDA 24/7 regarding the company.

I believe in supporting the developer of a software and when someone decides to “re-package” an open source software that’s available for free and sells it as his own, I am quite against this practice. To me, it’s extremely unethical.

I view this as something similar to splogs that copy my posts and material without consent and then benefit from the ad revenues and clicks that they obtain from unsuspecting visitors who are not aware of this.

I have not purchased anything from 995 SOFT and I hope that many people who read this posting will also not support this unethical practice and spread the word.

Thanks.

EDIT Dec 3rd, 2006: I’ve decided to update this posting since 995 SOFT has been sold and now goes under the company name of Filao or Filaomobile. Again, to avoid the negative news and press, it looks like it’s now associated with Mobile Digital Media or MDM.

Again, these are my own personal opinion and although open source is there to enable anyone to access the code and make his own changes to it and technically do what he wants, I am mainly viewing it from the perspective that if you get something for free and then turn around and profit from it, I don’t think it’s morally right. Of course, there are many who will disagree with me on this.

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