Mark Winterhalder wrote:
> Also, it's not always about legal/illegal. It's also about the good
> relationship the community currently has with Macromedia (not to speak
> of possibly changing their mind about releasing alpha versions in the
> future). It's a bit like the relationship with your neighbour, you
> have an interest to get along, and that sometimes means not to insist
> on your right. In this case, both sides have an even stronger
> interest, because there's that huge evil dude who lives down the
> road...
> 
> I believe the key paragraph in Mike's post is the one about not
> setting a precedent of not enforcing IP rights. Even if they wouldn't
> mind us doing it, or even would see the benefit it would have for
> everybody affected, they must keep up the possibility to enforce it
> against third parties which follow completely different interests.

*applause*

Couldn't have said that better myself :)

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