> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > You may as well put Fred in jail for Xenocopy, in fact ;)
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> DOWN WITH FRED! EVIL PURVEYOR OF ILLEGAL TOOLS OF CRIME!!! FIE! FIE!
You'd better start worrying about, if and when they come and take
me away, whether I might tell them who I supplied stuff to.
Twenty years ago, when I wrote the first versions of XenoCopy, I thought
that it would make sense to make contact with some of the OEMs at trade
shows to make sure that I got accurate information about their formats.
At NCC (which was once the biggest show in the US, soon thereafter passed
by by Comdex), booth staff at several manufacturers were incapable of
imagining ANY possible use of disk format conversion other than the making
of unauthorized copies of their proprietary software. In fact,
representatives of TWO companies threatened to sue me if I included their
disk formats!
Although I was out of town, and staying in a hotel room, I stayed up late
that night to make sure that theirs were the very next formats that I
added.
But neither company kept their promise of providing me with massive free
publicity.
The two companies were:
Intertec (Superbrain)
Televideo
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Wed Apr 03 2002 - 13:01:21 BST