[ Thanks to Amy Bennett for this link. ]
Free-as-in-freedom software is very often
free-as-in-beer, too. This is normally a good thing. But one open
source project developer is calling out a troubling problem with
free software: counterfeit applications.The problem, according to VideoLAN developer Ludovic Fauvet, is
this: VideoLAN’s highly regarded VLC Media Player, which is
licensed under the GPL, is being redistributed by various
organizations’ websites, some of which claim that VLC is actually
their application to distribute. These websites attract users with
paid Google AdWords ads that come up in various media-player
related searches.