🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:08:31 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov"
<arybenkov@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:01:50 +0400, John Lewis <john.dsl@frontier.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you have some grudge against GOG ??
>
>I do. Exactly because
>
>> You may not know, but GOG.com is an offshoot of CDProjekt Red
>
>I know it.
>
>1. Some Polish guy at rpgcodex told that one of cofounders of CDProjekt
>made his initial fortune by selling pirated games in 90s.
>I don't have the link (though if someone really cares he can search the site
>for the name and info). I have no reason not to believe that guy.
>
>2. Now this CDProjekt again sell the games as it seems legally.
>Well, maybe de jure it IS legally but morally it is wrong from all sides.
>With time most old games became de facto abandonware, public domain.
>Peoples downloaded games, found solutions, built utilties to play old games
>on "modern systems". Obscure owners did not care. Everybody was happy.
>
>Now appears a shady company that began to sell the games using community's
>solutions, efforts. Wow! God blessed us! Really?
>
>Consider: there was a landlord who had an orchard. Later he moved to some other
>place. Local folks began to visit the orchard, they even built ladders
>to reach tall trees. Landlord did not care, he just did not want to sell
>the land. Heck with the orchard. Then out of nothing appears a sleazeball,
>what call the owner, and tells he can make money of the orchard.
>Owner answers whatever. Now sleazeball takes a seat in orchard and
>tells everybody you should pay me. And me, being so kind person, permit you
>to use those ladders for free. (One of ladders has name - DosBox ;)
>
>That is the lump on my shoulder.
>

Must be very awkward and painful. Made an appointment for the surgery
yet?

John Lewis

>-- 
>Andrew Rybenkov