[Coco] CoCo Wireless RS-232 Pak

[Boisy Pitre]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:

> Boisy Pitre wrote:
>> On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
>>
>>> Boisy Pitre wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> I have to believe that you are well aware that giving away your
>>>> CoCoNet software would directly undermine sales of DriveWire.
>>>
>>> So would selling it. What's the difference?
>>
>> Before I decided to give DriveWire away there was a difference.  Now,
>> there is no difference, so the point is moot.
>>
>> This horse has been beat, so to quote Ben Kenobi, "There's nothing to
>> see here... move along."
>
> Sorry, I had not read the announcement that it had joined NitrOS-9.
>
> Still though, I wouldn't think the existence of a for-sale product  
> performing
> a similar function should preclude someone from doing something nice  
> for the
> community by releasing their own work freely (even if it's done with
> self-serving motives, like selling hardware).


Be careful... you are poking the embers, and the fire is likely to  
start up again.

You may feel differently if you had invested time into making a  
product that someone else would potentially undercut by giving their  
work away, especially when you were misled by that individual.  I gave  
reasons why I saw it as I did, and I made it clear that it was a dirty  
thing to do.

But do we really want to rehash all that again?  I made my point and  
I'm done with it.  My response to Roger was to preempt him and release  
DriveWire for free, and it turned out to be a great decision.