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Bones:

His comments look 3/4 reasonable. Looks like he just wants "apples for apples" comparison when advertising cabs for sale.

I really don't see how it could be worth the expense to attempt to enforce it and anything like this that attracts attention to the whole MAME hobby/business is probably not a good thing.


gprime:

In case his site is down:

http://www.gprime.net/ultracade/


--- Quote ---February 21, 2005
Like most things that are spread by rumor, the facts about me, UltraCade Technologies, and the M.A.M.E.
emulation system are quite distorted. I will try and educate anyone who cares to listen about the reality of our
marketplace and what we are doing and what we are not. Simply put, we are making an effort to stamp out the
commercial sales of M.A.M.E. based systems that advertise the ability to play thousands of games while relying on
the customer to obtain the ROMs which can not legally be obtained. What we are not doing is trying to claim
ownership of the M.A.M.E. open source emulator or sue its authors. We are concerned about the commercial
marketplace, and not the readers of the many M.A.M.E. user groups and forums.
I have been working on emulation technology since the mid 80
--- End quote ---


Paul Olson:

I just tried it and his extremely annoying flash was working fine, but I didn't find the letters.

Paul

gprime:


--- Quote from: pcolson on February 21, 2005, 07:01:55 am ---I just tried it and his extremely annoying flash was working fine, but I didn't find the letters.

Paul

--- End quote ---

There are direct links to the PDFs on the very front of the page. They are not in the flash section.

mdekkers:

Well, thanks for posting those letters. The synopsis my mind created when reading them is something like:

"We make stuff to sell to people. Other people make something similar, but use an open source component to do this. Because of this and some other reasons not related to the open source bits, they can make their product cheaper then ours (knowing open source, it's probably better then his as well). We don't like this, because now we are forced into a position of competition. In order to stop this, we are claiming trademarks, but we promise to only use it on the bad guys."

Meanwhile back in the real world, there are several real problems with this:

1.) The names and logo's clearly are not his to trademark !!
2.) If you don't vigorously enforce your trademark, you are exposed, as you may stand to lose it come a legal challenge
3.) The names and logo's clearly are not his to trademark !!
4.) He has been trying to enforce it already, on relatively innocent bystanders
5.) The names and logo's clearly are not his to trademark !!

In short, I smell BS.....



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