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Discussion: Ultracade and the Mame Trademark
shawnzilla:
Still sounds like he's trying to get what he wants using duress as his technique.
Reminds me of a used car sales pitch.
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on February 21, 2005, 04:18:53 pm ---I'm not sure if you guys saw this second letter posted on the Ultracade site
..looks like he's retracting
http://www.ultracade.com/openoffer.pdf
--- Quote ---February 21, 2005
An open offer to the M.A.M.E. community.
Our recent actions to protect our products have met with a lot of controversy. Many
people have been quick to judge and make accusations about what we are attempting to
do, and what we have already done. It is my understanding that the spirit of the
M.A.M.E. community is
--- End quote ---
--- End quote ---
Fat_Trucker:
Ambiguous language on ebay ads aside.
Mr Foley has already shown that he's sees ownership of the MAME trademark as far more than a sword and shield to fight the dubious legality of some of their competitors.
They have already tried to use their implied ownership of the trademark to obtain royalty payments from people involved with the distribution of MAME branded artwork to the home build community.
Reading through the masses of outraged posts in other forums as well as this one it would appear that they fully intend to make full commercial use of the trademark in terms of both software and branding and have threatened everyone they could find an email address for who are using the MAME logo in whatever capacity.
If Mr Foley wasn't trying to steal the trademark (and thereby years of other peoples graft and dedication) and wasn't trying to squeeze royalties from all the hardworking people involved in making the community so open and successful then I'm sure he would enjoy fairly widespread support and a measure of commercial success for his efforts to pervert the dubious trade in illegal roms.
As it stands though he may have wreaked irreperable damage to his business by repeatedly biting the hand that feeds him.
Chris:
--- Quote from: Fat_Trucker on February 21, 2005, 04:26:42 pm ---As it stands though he may have wreaked irreperable damage to his business by repeatedly biting the hand that feeds him.
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But we don't feed him. Almost by definition, anyone frequenting Build Your Own Arcade Controls or using MAME isn't in the market for an Ultracade. He claims not to use MAME in Ultracade itself. So anyone making MAME marquees, arcade controls, cabinet plans, frontends, or anbything in support of a build-your-own solution is in competition with him.
RayB:
Regardless of his actions or intentions, nobody appointed him the official MAME POLICE. He had the nerve to desrcibe MAME as illegal anyways. So screw him.
That said, someone needs to decompile Ultracade and find out what's ticking underneath... (just in case there's some mame source in there...)
gprime:
He shuts down a company that sells MAME machines with *legal* roms from STARroms?
And then he's greedy enough to ask for *royalties* from places printing the MAME logo?
On top of that he tries to register the MAME trademark which clearly isn't his.
..
Does this guy work for SCO?
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