Mark S. and Blitz Basic
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 1:03 am
Mark posted this to the BlitzBasic community and I'm sure he doesn't mind me posting it in its entirety here:
"Dear Blitz Community,
As many of you are no doubt aware, there has been an ongoing dispute between myself and Idigicon for some time now.
I had hoped to resolve this quietly through legal means, but recent comments on the Blitz forums made by George Bray, an Idigicon employee, have made it necessary to publicly clarify some issues:
I have terminated all agreements and contracts with Guildhall/Idigicon, on the grounds of breach of good faith, non-performance and negligence.
Blitz Research Ltd, which is owned by myself, is the only company with the right to sell Blitz products. Copies of Blitz bought elsewhere are effectively pirate copies.
Idigicon do not have the right to sell Blitz products or provide Blitz product updates, and are currently selling stock that they happened to have before the relationship ended. I am receiving NO money from any sales of Blitz through Idigicon.
Blitz Research lawyers are currently in correspondence with Idigicon in an effort to prevent them selling Blitz products.
Blitz is currently only available as a digital download. We realise that this is unsatisfactory for some people, and are working towards producing a CD version.
I have no intention of legally pursuing any Blitz customers regardless of how or where they may have purchased Blitz.
Similarly, I have no intention of pursuing any Blitz related websites, as long as they are not selling Blitz products without the authorization of Blitz Research Ltd.
As for George's comments, suffice to say that I do not consider Idigicon has any right - morally, ethically, legally or otherwise - to the Blitz updates. I have spent thousands of hours on Blitz updates of my own volition, and under no contractual obligation whatsoever to do so, and to have someone come along and claim the rights to this work is...indescribable.
In conclusion, please remember that any sale that Idigicon gets is one that I miss out on. This is obviously not good for the long term future of Blitz, so if you like Blitz and want to see it grow, please buy from this site!
If you would like more information please feel free to contact info@blitzbasic.com.
Sincerely,
Mark Sibly,
Blitz Research Ltd"
This is pretty sad guys. I know some of us have fun with the competition thing with PureBasic and Blitz, but when it comes down to it, many of us started out in Blitz Basic and have moved over to PureBasic and so we have come to love Mark Sibly and HIS product BlitzBasic over the years.
I think it would show some real class for those of us in the PureBasic community who came from Blitz, putting aside our competitive jousting and fun, to send our warm regards and words of encouragement and support to Mark through this hard time he's going through.
As programmers, we all understand the amount of time, of years, it takes to produce a computer program capable of selling and making good $$. To have someone else, after years of coding, claim the rights to your work.... dude, that's messed up and I'm sure we can each, in our own way, relate to how horrible a feeling this must be.
Peace
Lj
"Dear Blitz Community,
As many of you are no doubt aware, there has been an ongoing dispute between myself and Idigicon for some time now.
I had hoped to resolve this quietly through legal means, but recent comments on the Blitz forums made by George Bray, an Idigicon employee, have made it necessary to publicly clarify some issues:
I have terminated all agreements and contracts with Guildhall/Idigicon, on the grounds of breach of good faith, non-performance and negligence.
Blitz Research Ltd, which is owned by myself, is the only company with the right to sell Blitz products. Copies of Blitz bought elsewhere are effectively pirate copies.
Idigicon do not have the right to sell Blitz products or provide Blitz product updates, and are currently selling stock that they happened to have before the relationship ended. I am receiving NO money from any sales of Blitz through Idigicon.
Blitz Research lawyers are currently in correspondence with Idigicon in an effort to prevent them selling Blitz products.
Blitz is currently only available as a digital download. We realise that this is unsatisfactory for some people, and are working towards producing a CD version.
I have no intention of legally pursuing any Blitz customers regardless of how or where they may have purchased Blitz.
Similarly, I have no intention of pursuing any Blitz related websites, as long as they are not selling Blitz products without the authorization of Blitz Research Ltd.
As for George's comments, suffice to say that I do not consider Idigicon has any right - morally, ethically, legally or otherwise - to the Blitz updates. I have spent thousands of hours on Blitz updates of my own volition, and under no contractual obligation whatsoever to do so, and to have someone come along and claim the rights to this work is...indescribable.
In conclusion, please remember that any sale that Idigicon gets is one that I miss out on. This is obviously not good for the long term future of Blitz, so if you like Blitz and want to see it grow, please buy from this site!
If you would like more information please feel free to contact info@blitzbasic.com.
Sincerely,
Mark Sibly,
Blitz Research Ltd"
This is pretty sad guys. I know some of us have fun with the competition thing with PureBasic and Blitz, but when it comes down to it, many of us started out in Blitz Basic and have moved over to PureBasic and so we have come to love Mark Sibly and HIS product BlitzBasic over the years.
I think it would show some real class for those of us in the PureBasic community who came from Blitz, putting aside our competitive jousting and fun, to send our warm regards and words of encouragement and support to Mark through this hard time he's going through.
As programmers, we all understand the amount of time, of years, it takes to produce a computer program capable of selling and making good $$. To have someone else, after years of coding, claim the rights to your work.... dude, that's messed up and I'm sure we can each, in our own way, relate to how horrible a feeling this must be.
Peace
Lj
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