Piracy and the FPGA discussion

MS wrote... Ok, that's over the line. We here on classiccmp pride ourselves on respecting copyrights, intellectual property, software licensing, and the like. I know that the vast majority, probably all... of the people on this list try very hard to work WITH the manufacturers and authors to obtain hobbyist use licenses, abiding by those licenses, and respecting the manufacturers/authors when for whatever reason they decide not to allow a hobbyist license (or comitting a work to the public domain). We play by the rules. Perhaps a better approach would have been for you to call the software author, and work with them to get some things opensourced. I'm sure several people on the list would have been interested in helping you with that. Make a compelling case to them. It can sometimes work, and our hobby looks better for it. Michael, by doing what you have done and even more importantly (to me) by publicly posting about it here, you have tarnished the very open source, hobbyist license, free use environment which you claim to champion. Simply put, your actions are hurting the rest of us. Quite frankly, we don't want your actions in this matter associated with our group. I have privately warned you about posts to this list a few times, so now the warning is public. Your moderation flag has been turned on, so all your posts will be subject to moderation until such time as I feel it is no longer necessary. Jay West Classiccmp.Org classiccmp list owner