Tall poppy syndrome? What an ass-like thing to say
A lot more realistic than to suggest someone gives away a 3-4 year project away for free.
Considering you have no idea of what I do for a living, it's an assumption that has about as much merit as every other thing you've said
I agree I speak a lot more sense than some other people can comprehend. Oh, their poor, poor brains. Heh. Trolling.
What you do for a living is entirely unimportant to this discussion, because Grey's scenario has/had nothing to do with you - you weren't a customer and thus not affected in any way. If anything -I- should be upset that my updates will one day soon come to an end. But I'm not because I've seen the code and I can see the huge effort that has been put into it.
The simple fact of the matter is this - you had zero interest in the product until Grey sold it to someone else. You didn't care that he was previously charging people to access the code, now the only difference is that someone else owns the code instead. Therefore, the fact that you raised any points now indicates that you are unhappy about Grey's 'success' (assuming he got a fair deal for it). There truly is no other conclusion I can fathom.
It's was about locking off the framework from a supportive community
The framework has NEVER been publically available to *this* supportive community if that's what you're thinking, only in Grey's forums where you have to buy the product in order to gain access there. Furthermore, those forums are still active and changes based on consumer input (and bug reports) are *still* taking place!
That, and suing for lost time/revenue from being away from work are extremely difficult to win by in court. Very, very rare.
Bah. I would have thought that logic common sense. I guess the legal system really is set up to support big business and screw anyone else, then.