53 minutes ago, Milton Waddams said:

“Democracy dies in darkness”

LOL...where is democracy? How loosely we are using that term...

But to stay on the topic, we all seem to forget Nick's Bible and theory of bad Software Developers. Hmmm, we shouldn't, it's still happening. And for "stealing and De-compiling and EULA", sounds like that we all think that our Firewall is bullet proof. How many things a day my PC ingest and what happens I am sure nobody knows. 

But from legal point of view, well that is something different. If that piece of software will work as advertised and give us a help and idea what's going on behind our precious Flight Sim, than let them work and let them make it, it could be nice product. I am sure they will sort out all legal issues they might have. Besides, as Vic said, software is still in development phase and little advertising is not bad at all. Free market after all....

On how many things I threw my money because it doesn't work I only know, and I bet my money, I am not alone....

I think this is a very interesting discussion and I am glad its in the public domain. Most posts are usually a little boring :) but this has me riveted.

My two cents

Simbol - don't worry about this app and keep doing what you are doing. If anyone wanted to copy your app they would have done so already with the hundreds of freeware tools out there that can log every file, registry change etc. made by an app.

The market for an add-on like this is not likely to be particularly large in my view  (people want add-ons they can see like airports and planes) and those who buy it will, in my view, be mostly people with lots of add-ons rather than most simmers who have some airports, planes and active sky and rarely have to manage what changes are made to their sim.

As for users seeing how your app works, many of the addons you describe as at risk are very cheap in price and it will still require time and effort to create your own version or make the changes yourself when you can instead pay the same as a mcdonalds meal and buy the original instead and save time and gain support and future updates.

The legal route is always a waste of time. Only lawyers walk out as winners especially in a niche market like ours.

Good luck to both developers.

3 hours ago, DaveCT2003 said:

First, beyond the initial inquiry, I don't think this conversation belongs in a public venue. There is simply too much that isn't understood by average users and information can be taken out of context or otherwise inaccurately construed.  With that, I would encourage a private, developer to developer discussion.

 

Battling a vendor or competitor in front of customers, or even employees, is NEVER a good idea.

I do find it a very interesting conversation, however, the idea of one vendors product tracking changes made by another vendor, of files not owned, or created by second vendor. I would think it very difficult to argue reverse-engineering has occurred when a product tracks files not owned by you, or created by your product.

On 28/11/2017 at 1:18 AM, simbol said:

Thanks for your support, right now I am considering drop all further development, what is the point?

S.

Hey Simbol, don't do anything too hasty over one thread of unverified content. I, for one, am really impressed with your product and support of the community and look forward to your new developments.