[Typo3-marketing] Freelance auction for TYPO3 web development?

[Daniel Hinderink]

>> Two years ago someone tried to auction off a TYPO3 website on ebay.
>> We took legal action to prevent that.
> 
> Legal action against what? - AFAIK everybody can sell services using TYPO3
> for any price as long as he keeps it under GPL. And I am pretty sure there
> is no (at least no German) law that prohibits selling services via ebay. So
> what was the illegal thing to be prevented?
> 
> IMHO you cant (and shouldn't) do anything against discounters that will sell
> services for a low budget. And a cheap service doesn't necessarily mean that
> it has to be of a bad quality. (A good example is the dental service you can
> get in poland or hungary compared to the costs of the same service in
> germany.) A one man show can be much cheaper than a big company just because
> there is only one mouth to feed and not the whole administrative overhead.
> There are lots of other examples.
> 
> So certifying services and/or persons is the way to go. This way people will
> know that they will get a good quality for their money, no matter if it was
> a high or low budget they had to pay.

I agree. Two years ago the situation was different and the auction needed to
be stopped - so it was.

Let's just leave it at that, this is not what the thread is about.

Cheers

Daniel