More commercial copying from this site
Printed From: FSI Language Courses
Category: Learning Languages
Forum Name: General Discussion
Forum Discription: Discussion about studying languages using the FSI courses. If you would like to see a specific language forum not listed below, just let us know.
URL: http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=470
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:17am
Topic: More commercial copying from this site
Posted By: daristani
Subject: More commercial copying from this site
Date Posted: 02 September 2007 at 1:45pm
Forum member Zhilong provided links today to another commercial site, foreignserviceinstitute.com, which sells PDFs and audio of various of the FSI courses. For some, you can download the textbooks in PDF form on the site. I looked at the Swedish course textbook available there, and it seems it's copied exactly from the Swedish course on this site. (You can compare the wrinkling and wear on the cover to see they're identical.)
Just another case of someone trying to make money from work that others have done to make materials freely available here...
ADDENDUM: Just to ensure there's no misunderstanding, I meant no criticism of Zhilong in the above; it's great that he tracked this down. I only wanted to point out the difference between those who seek to profit from others' work and those who seek to make language materials available free to everyone.
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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 02 September 2007 at 7:53pm
I'm OK with others using the material I've submitted for profit (though free is better).
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