June 2007 Extreme PC Magazine with Alleg Disk

[Sycrus]

QUOTE (fishbone @ May 11 2007, 08:29 AM) Well...I didn't pick up a copy - but can. However, since I'm not knowledgable about the different versions of the game - can I send the files to one of you vets and have you look at it and see what it is?

i think BV has that taken care of

QUOTE I'll try to grab a copy and see what version is on it. -BV[/quote]

[beeman]

QUOTE (Sycrus @ May 11 2007, 10:38 AM) i think BV has that taken care of

Thanks SY...btw congrats on the academy...don't whore me too much now. I had to drop out before this last class started because of work, but I'll hopefully be in the next...and I'll be gunning for your 106%. Later, bro.

[madpeople]

does this mean we've got incoming!?

[peet]

I don't think this is a legal issue for us. We didn't distribute the software, so *if* it's illegal, it's not *our* problem, but the distributer. If the distributer stole "our" version, we could address him on this matter.

I agree, it would be a problem if they distributed the old non-working version of Alleg. But, we will know soon enough.

[Ozricosis]

You would think if they were mass producing the installation files for Allegiance they would have at least dropped us a line about it?

Isn't that proper netiquitte? *shrug*

[TheVoid37]

QUOTE (Avalanche @ May 11 2007, 09:44 AM) While it's nice with some free advertisement that might very well be abuse of the MS license we got the source code under... Which could be very bad.

You may not use or distribute this Software or any derivative works in any form for
commercial purposes. Examples of commercial purposes would be running business
operations, licensing, leasing, or selling the Software, distributing the Software for use
with commercial products or any other activity which purpose is to procure a commercial
gain to you or others.


If Understand what they are doing, that is putting the software install files on a CD as free programs, they are in no way that I can see violating anything in the above paragraph. It might be different if the CD was the sole reason people buy that magazine, that would be the only way M$ could try and put preasure on them by persueing the avenue that people buy the magazine because of the CD, but more importantly because Allegiance is on it. They can easily retort that since the files are readily downloadable for free, so people wouldn't want to pay for what they can get for free. But who knows.

[Pook]

Well first, I think that's incorrect. They're using it as part of a promotion in order to sell magazines. Magazine A has no CD, Magazine B has the same content but also includes the CD - which do you buy?

In any case, we have terms in our ToS that basically say that they shouldn't be redistributing the software anyway. So MS decided that the magazine had done wrong, it was a) against our ToS and b) without our permission.

To answer Ozzy's point - they didn't even contact us to ask if they could do it.

[BlackViper]

I can't find the magazine with the CD locally. And as Pook pointed out we have no liability here. My gut tells me all they are giving away is a copy of the source code.

[carbon]

If you ignore the legalities, its a good thing.
If you don't ignore the legalities, it's a good thing.

We get new blood and the Extreme PC get millions more people buying their publication to grab their free copy of Allegiance!

Er.. win, win?

[Snack]

Agreed carbon, but that is not all! We also get to create some needless copyright drama for the best game barely anyone plays! Awesome!