Re: Free FAT16 Filesystem

Murray R. Van Luyn wrote:


 You now have in your possession a
piece of code that is highly marketable, and you appear to have chosen to
preserve a market for it by eliminating its competition. Better than that,
you seem to believe that you have manipulated someone into performing the
value adding process for you.

That's total bollocks. He wrote the code; it's his. He generously allowed you to use it; you abused his generosity by making it not work with his compiler. You COULD have kept compatibility- he's indicated that he would have been totally happy with that.

Put yourself in the other guy's shoes. In the long term it's in YOUR interest that people should coontinue to provide everybody with good stuff, free of charge. What do they get from it? In dave's case, the chance of a sale. What's wrong with that. Other people do it to have something spicy on the CV, or because they need a modification and they automatically publish it under the terms of the licence.

Paul Burke
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