Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Apr 2007 20:57 UTC
A new development in the Zeta legality issue: BeOSFrance says to have written confirmation from Jean-Louis Gassee that to JLG's knowledge, YellowTAB did not have an agreement with Palmsource [French]. My French isn't exactly what it should be (I should've paid more attention during high school), but with the help of Adam and others we managed to translate the most important bit: "The impropriety and absence of an agreement between yellowTAB and PalmSource (at the time, still the owner of the BeOS IP) had been confirmed to me in writing by the person best-placed to talk about it in those circumstances: Jean-Louis Gassee."
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2007-04-10
Seems i am the best to translate this to english:
as far as i remember, it's was now 3 years ago when i was worring about the legality of Zeta. Like everybody knows, i'm running www.beosfrance.com since 4 years now, and also promoting BeOS Dev Edition 2.2, a french remake of the old 1.1, a bit outdated.
A member of yT join me to say that if Bone and Real Player was not deleted from the devEd ISO, its maintener (not me) will get into problems. And that's what its maintener did. Nevertheless, since i need to protect the website i decide to promote a different way this distribution, and split BeosFrance from this DevEd. A real pitty since we were thinking about a BeSync system between this BeOS and the website for updates, localisations and more... Thanks guys ! :-(
Since promoting an illegal product came to me like something dangerous for the integrity of my website (so, my everyday "work" of 4 years now), i asked myself: "And if Zeta was not legal ??? Nothing has never been clean on this !". Cause if it was not, it wouldn't be normal that i support it (banners, articles, ...). I decide to contact JLG, the best person to answer me on this topic. He was so kind to answer me and clearly told me that AT THIS TIME (OSNews, thanks not making me say what i didn't say !!!), so at this time, the time we got this email discution, he told me that no agreement were took between PalmSource and yT.
I decide to ask back yT, and send an email to the person in charge of press relations (which everybody knows as a veru nice person). You can't imagine how sad and surprise i was when i saw on this reply that if i publish any information that can hurt yT buziness, they would have no choise that "to sue" me (was the first time i saw this word in english... i remebered it at once).
And if those informations has never been publics, that's simply because JLG never answered me when i asked him to write an article about all this, quoting him. End of story.
Today, with public annoncements of ACCESS public relation peoples, it definitly seems clear that Zeta was an illegal product to sell, at least at the beginning (i didn't say anything about the quality of the product itself, neither about additionnal software and work that have been done by the yT team !), and is still the case, since ACCESS do not seems to have one.
When this ACCESS guy post a comment on the mr Korz blog, asking him to get in contact with him to make all this story clear, his blog close its doors the day after... is that a normal thing for someone who have nothing to worry about ??? You decide...
ps: I also want to thanks OSNews for being so kind not sending me an email before publishing this article !
psē: People involved here already have my gmail, and so my phone number, can reach me whenever they want.