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| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on August 27, 2005, 07:40:39 am ---Yeah but now the thread has been moved to EE so it will only attract the gutter level individuals of byoac. Hey, look at this. My prediction has already to come true. :o --- End quote --- I read through the 6-page thread over at VPF. On the surface, DaveyR is saying that the tables and VP will still be available in the usual places and that he is only licensing the use of VP and certain tables. Of course, he is also putting his spin on the MAME trademark issue, so it's hard to take any of his comments at face value. I have also been on VP (but not recently) long enough to remember some of the key players in the community, among them Destruk, PacDude, and Mr. Hyde and it appears that ALL of them are pretty solidly against the idea, which you can read a lot into. |
| lokki:
don't mean to defend foley but the short of it is this 1) He licencesed VP from the developers (The developer of VP agreed to this) (He does not own VP he has the right to use it commercially.) 2) He is offering to pay designers of VP tables for use of their Tables. 3) He has licensed the rights for some commercial pinball tables 4) Not all Table designers want to license their tables. As far as I can tell he has not threatened anyone, no auctions have been removed. edit numbering |
| Tiger-Heli:
5) There is a big rift in the VP Community between people who want to cash in on their hard work with Ultracade, people who want nothing to do with him, and people who did 10% of the work on a table someone else submitted and wonder what their cut of the royalty is. (Of course there was a rift three or so years ago over proprietary/locked tables and open source tables, so this isn't the first time). |
| Harry Potter:
Is Dave sticking his fingers into someone else's pie again? |
| Crazy Cooter:
I posted over there. |
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