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Posted on 18-Feb-2003 11:21 GMT by Senex50 comments
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At the Melbourne Amiga User Group (MAUG) there's a poll who would buy Umilator (Bernie's Amithlon-successor) for upto 99 Australian Dollars if it would be available.
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Umilator poll : Comment 39 of 50ANN.lu
Posted by Bernd Meyer on 19-Feb-2003 14:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 33 (Anonymous):
Just to point out one minor mistake in that argument --- there is *no* contract at all between Harald Frank (either as an individual, or as "VMC") and me.There was supposed to be one. I entered into the whole Amithlon venture on the explicit condition that I would be paid for my time, at the time I did the programming. For months, promises of contracts as well as promises of impending payments were what I got. What I *didn't* get, however, was either a contract, or money. To this very date, there exists no contract between HF/VMC and me, and I have never received a single cent from HF/VMC for any programming I did.I hope that Mr. Frank has learned a lesson here. *If* he had actually delivered on his promises, the IP in the code I wrote would have been his, and he could call Amithlon "his product" now without anybody raising an eyebrow. And I would just wondering what an idiot would pay me to write code for him, and then give it to someone like H&P to distribute.But because Mr. Frank repeatedly broke his promises, *I* own the IP in my code. Which means that, all blustering aside, he doesn't. Which, for him, is a real shame, seeing as this means that if he ever wants to release "AmithlonXL" as a full product (rather than as a collection of to-be-paid-for drivers), he would have to replicate about a year's worth of programming --- by someone who is, by his own statements, much faster than most people.It also means that this whole mess, which would have been avoided if the agreed-upon terms of our cooperation had been adhered to, has become rather public, and has probably not greatly enhanced Mr. Frank's chances of doing business in the Amiga market.... Which, however, is pretty much the only market he *can* do business in (68k ASM hacks are not exactly in high demand outside that market).So, hopefully, next time someone tells him "I am happy to do the work, but you need to pay me for it, now", he won't just say "yes", but actually act accordingly, too....
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