----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?
> > > 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 Has this bloke gone nuts? We have been producing the Q60 for over a year and Wolfgang has never contacted me once, even though he agreed to do so with Tony Firshman and Derek. So I am still waiting for this contact or is this above the contact he means? Licence money has been paid. I have replied to Tony Tebby's email (to me) and I am now waiting for the return reply. > (Q60) These are machines that contain SMSQ/E in ROM (they cannot boot > otherwise). We have sold machines that do not have SMSQ/E - they boot into QDOS Classic instead but then you already know that fact?? Etc. etc. etc. this is stupid. Has Wolfgang had a tap on the head recently? (a great cure for water on the brain as it happens). Do you, Wolfgang, still intend to send this mystery email to me? If not why not? Wolfgang, more like WolfGANGSTER, menacingly demanding money without an invoice. Watch out, this Wolfgangster bloke's a nutter :-))) Dennis - D&D Systems
