Piracy and the FPGA discussion

[Jay West]

MS wrote...
> I didn't steal it, I forcibly liberated it for the People.
> And there was much rejoycing.

Ok, that's over the line.

We here on classiccmp pride ourselves on respecting copyrights, intellectual 
property, software licensing, and the like. I know that the vast majority, 
probably all... of the people on this list try very hard to work WITH the 
manufacturers and authors to obtain hobbyist use licenses, abiding by those 
licenses, and respecting the manufacturers/authors when for whatever reason 
they decide not to allow a hobbyist license (or comitting a work to the 
public domain). We play by the rules.

Perhaps a better approach would have been for you to call the software 
author, and work with them to get some things opensourced. I'm sure several 
people on the list would have been interested in helping you with that. Make 
a compelling case to them. It can sometimes work, and our hobby looks better 
for it.

Michael, by doing what you have done and even more importantly (to me) by 
publicly posting about it here, you have tarnished the very open source, 
hobbyist license, free use environment which you claim to champion. Simply 
put, your actions are hurting the rest of us. Quite frankly, we don't want 
your actions in this matter associated with our group. I have privately 
warned you about posts to this list a few times, so now the warning is 
public.

Your moderation flag has been turned on, so all your posts will be subject 
to moderation until such time as I feel it is no longer necessary.

Jay West
Classiccmp.Org
classiccmp list owner