AlexMax
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Yeah, honestly he can sucker people into paying $35 for his editor if he wants to. I don't even care that some people prefer DeePsea to Doom Builder, hell if anybody is guilty of overpaying for software it's me, since I just paid $50 for a Textmate license when perfectly fine free alternatives exist like vim and emacs.
The simple fact is, however, that his $35 is ill-gotten, using code that he is legally not allowed to use. He is earning money without respecting the licenses of the code that he poaches from, and the only reason he hasn't been sued is because the authors don't want to take him to court, first for monetary reasons and also because it's a huge hassle.
Ignoring him doesn't work. After all, he's still using stolen code, he still is #2 result on google for "Doom Editor" and he is presumably making enough money off of registrations that he still thinks it's worthwhile to update his software. The only way we have any possibility of getting him to change his ways is to continue to call attention to his thieving ways. Eventually, these sorts of posts might creep up google, and I don't think he'd be very happy with references to DeePsea surrounded by "Stolen Code".
All he has to do is open the source for R3Dedit. He doesn't have to stop charging money for it, all he has to do is release the source tree.
Last edited by AlexMax on 09-19-10 at 20:15
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