Mindmaster follow-up

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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 3238

Posted by stephenz
2005-05-12 15:34:44

I sent Mindmaster the following (admittedly snotty) e-mail message:

“You must have been very angry when you discovered that someone has ripped off your program and is giving it away free as open source software under the name of Freemind. I mean your program is identical to Freemind, so why would anyone want to pay for Mindmaster when they can get Freemind free? That must be very frustrating to you, to know that someone else is taking credit for your hard work and innovation. Only a very unethical person could do something like that.”

Here is the polite response from Mindmaster:

“Thank you very much for your email.

“As you know, Freemind is licensed as open source software. And MindMaster is licensed under the same license. I also stated that the credit within MindMaster. Nobody take other’s credit. I changed the name of the original software and provide the tech support for registered user just like what RedHat did for Liunx and another company did for Lindows.

“Please let me know if you have any future questions!

“Thanks, Allan Wang”

I guess this is perfectly acceptable behavior. Yikes! Let the buyer beware.

Steve Z.

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