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SirPeale:

--- Quote from: davidrfoley on July 11, 2008, 10:45:01 am ---What past actions are you referring too?

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Do the words "Mame trademark" ring a bell?

davidrfoley:
Does the phrase, do your homework ring a bell? 

If you actually read the replies from Aaron Giles, I tried several times to contact the MAME team for help in putting a stop to people that were building and selling MAME based cabinets with no permission and no licenses for the games.  After no response I filed the trademark in an effort to stop the unfair and illegal competition.  I also transferred the trademark over to the team on my own accord, even though legally I could have kept it.  If my effort was to steal the mark, I would have succeeded, and still owned it to this day. However, that wasn't my goal or attempt.  Aaron confirmed this and my actions led to the MAME team cleaning up the commercial use of MAME, and it was good for the team and the community. 

In order to understand this, you would have to educate yourself, and most people can't be bothered, instead they want to just run around and make uneducated flames about how evil I am.  If you are too lazy to bother to understand the facts about something, so be it. 

SirPeale:
I know the story.  You can say whatever you want, you overstepped your bounds.  And forevermore your name is synonymous with several naughty words that I won't repeat here.

davidrfoley:
Here you go



This is the controller inside (hey, where is my money, it's not a wiimote)

RayB:
Valamir: 30,000 units sold is not a failure. It's more units sold than Stern Pinball sells in a year. * Retracted - I misread a post here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=81666.msg852391#msg852391

David,
You would gain more traction in these forums if you just said "I made a mistake. It was wrong to try to steal the MAME trademark." Your tactics may have been necessary in your view for business purposes, but you're talking to "consumer" level people here. Any defense that pushed the boundaries for business purposes is still going to appear underhanded, so no one will ever sympathize with your defense.

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