Sean, That piece of text on fms.komkon.org is old and outdated. A lot of discussions have taken place after marat posted that text. So you don't know what the situation is right now. Second, ASCII is not the one to sue, blame, accuse, etc. Coz ASCII has nothing to do with the MSX revival anymore. It's owned by the MSX association.
Your post does not make sense. Bart. > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Sean Young > Verzonden: maandag 20 mei 2002 15:28 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Release MSX Player > > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:39:20PM +0900, Bernard Lamers wrote: > > So why should you buy this software when you can also obtain it for > > free at Funet? Good question. Leaving issues of legality aside, I > > think that the MSX Player in its present form is only of limited > > interest for most of the people reading this newsgroup. > > According to the fMSX site: > > http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/ > > Be aware that the MSX-Player "official MSX emulator" released by > ASCII some time ago is based on the fMSX source code. Although > ASCII officials have written me about licensing my code long > time ago and repeatedly assured me that they intend to do so, > they have never actually licensed the code. At the moment, > MSX-Player is an unauthorized ripoff of my work that is used to > gain publicity if not money. Please, consider buying and using > the real fMSX-Windows. It is more up-to-date and much faster as > it is compiled into the native 80x86 code. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but by buying MSX-Player you are > supporting theft. AFAIK, if you are aware something is stolen, buying it > is illegal under Dutch law. > > Also note that this shows the power of the GPL. Marat probably does not > have the financial needs to sue ASCII. The free software foundation would > always support you with this. > > > Sean > -- > For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
