Re: Free FAT16 Filesystem

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:35:14 GMT,
Dave.Dunfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Dunfield)
wrote:

>>Sorry Guy's. I made evey effort to get it all squared up. Duh, I fell
>>straight into that one. He's withdrawn it and I'm now expecting legal
>>action.
>
>>Magnanimity only pays for someone else. I Give Up!
>
>I would not normally go into this in public, however since you have
>done so, I would like to set the record straight:
>
>I did not say anything about legal action.
>
>I simply asked you to remove the modified copy of my example code
>from distribution because you have not only made it incompatible with
>my toolset, but you have made it require a competitors toolset. You
>failed to mention this in all of our previous correspondance.
>
>Regards,
>Dave Dunfield
>
>For the record, here is the entire text of the message I sent to Murry
>earlier today.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Murry,
>
>In all of your correspondance, this is the first time you have mentioned
>that you are making the code specific to the Kiel compiler. Since you indicated
>that you are a customer, I had assumed that you were using my compiler.
>
>Keil is a competitor, and you are essentiually forcing people to use a
>competitor instead of my own product. This is not acceptable. Please stop
>distribution of this modified code.
>
>Regards,
>Dave
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Your desire that the modifications of your code be at least compatible
with your compiler are quite reasonable. But since this has been
aired now in public I've a couple of questions which I believe are
fair to ask. (I'm in an ornery mood, this morning? Perhaps.)

No need to answer them, if you feel that an extended discussion here
is inappropriate -- in that case, these will just lay on the table, as
it were:

(1) Who was the professional in this situation, Dave? I accept that
Murray did not mention Keil in his correspondence to you. But why
didn't you ask? It seems to me, an outsider of this relationship,
that if something like this slips between the cracks, so to speak,
then the fact that it did lays more to your error than his. His
standard of care is less than yours, I believe. Of course, regardless
of this question, I do think your position is a reasonable one. I'm
just wondering how _you_ let this slip through without being asked.

(2) Let's say that Murray had, instead, developed a single set of
source code from your FAT12 MDCFS code that was able to be compiled on
both your compiler AND under Keil's, as well. In other words, it used
#if type statements to allow it to compiler for either product. Would
this then still remain a problem for you? In other words, would you
_require_ that the result of Murray's efforts _also_ be incompatible
with your competition? Because if that is the case, it seems to me to
place an even greater emphasis on my first question.

I think the letter you presented was very clear and given that you had
no idea that it was being ported to Keil as well as being enhanced,
quite understandable. I'm just not sure why you let this one get so
far away from your interest without ever asking a question that
probably should have been asked. You are the professional one, held
to the higher standard, in this partnership -- from my otherwise
ignorant perspective.

Jon
.

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