ADMIN: "FA", "ETKA", "ELSA" was Re: Porsche FA now available

[Huw Powell]

> Point taken. However I think a polite statement would have served.

Sure, politeness is always good.  But sometimes what has to be said, has
to be said, and there's no time for flowers & poetry.

> Also, admitting that there exists a "wink-nod-..." system of 
> determining who gets a copy does little to improve one's legal 
> standing.

Well, I don't think he was implying there is such a system supported in
any way by the site or the mailing list.  Simply that, apparently, there
are copies floating around out there, and the best way to try to find
one is to send someone who refers to it obliquely a private email.

Or, ironically, go to ebay where there seems to be a steady supply of
this bootlegged software on sale.  Audifans is small and would probably
like to avoid messy legal shenanigans.  Ebay doesn't seem to care.

> And I find the idea that one must "pay his dues" before he is worthy
>  of getting a copy of FA to be elitist.

That is not the case at all.

> For that reason I share FA with anyone who contacts me off line. No
> charge. No secret handshake.

I think that is the common mode of dispersion, yes.

Remember, Brett's note was in reaction to someone offering for sale 
bootlegged software on a public mailing list.

& see next note...

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

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