Hi all,
I just wanted to point out something to the general QL world at large: as you all know, SMSQ/E is being made available publicly, under a licence that was discussed at length here. This licence is now the current licence for all versions of SMSQ/E. Under this licence, only appointed resellers may sell the software, provided, notably, that a 10 euro payment is made to Tony Tebby for each copy sold. Today, D&D systems are selling the Q40/Q60. These are machines that contain SMSQ/E in ROM (they cannot boot otherwise). D&D have NOT even requested to become a software reseller. They are NOT paying the licence fees. This means that these people are currently selling something for which they have no licence and which they do not have the right to distribute - in other words, counterfeit software. Doesn't this mean that they are software pirates? Even worse, this means that YOU, when you are buying this machine with this software, are also using counterfeit software, and by extension, when using the Q40/Q60, you are also a software pirate. Do you really want to be? Wolfgang
