Hi John,
"J. Holden" wrote:
> Whatever your opinion on the legality of what they are doing, this is
> indeed a problem and reflects negatively on the community.
>
> Ignoring it will not make it go away. We need to know what we can do.
I don't think we're ignoring the 'issue'. But we probably should
consider what legal action actually cost "us", if legal action really
serves as a reasonable vehicle to deal with FPS - and if there are
probably 'cheaper' and more sustainable means of dealing with this
flavour of free riders.
If we really manage to shape our own public exposure into a formidable,
informative experience, then we're sooner or later see FPS and similar
"spin off's" diminish into irrelevance - without any further
interaction.
Personally I don't think that legal action gets us anywhere. If "we"
really decide to take this route, the people behind FPS are easily
escaping the trouble by just wrapping another brand around their
"product". The net result ? Significant waste of ressources at our end.
Instead, by increasing the exposure of the FlightGear-'brand' in the
public, we easily knock out FPS as well as all the others who are
probably considering to build a similar 'business'.
Coordinated effort on subjects like "corporate identity" (plus dealing
with "not-invented-here" tendencies) is, to my understanding, the key
to getting the FPS issue ironed out.
Cheers,
Martin.
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