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Threats Made Over FlightPrep Coverage
Late Tuesday, December 21st, and followed a few hours later in the wee hours of the morning of December 22nd, we received threatening emails from a person calling himself Dave Merril. The email was pretty nasty... pretty much threatening to ruin our Christmas/business/lives via all kinds of threats and mis-deeds because of our FlightPrep coverage. The combined emails were long-winded, closely parroted the claims and positions of FlightPrep's public statements and blog entries, and were… (www.aero-news.net) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Jason and @Bill - I am suspicious that you are plants for Flightprep. You have too many posts in the first place. Second, one of the other big Flightprep scandals is Flightprep sending a nasty email to all of the people that emailed Flightprep in the first place with genuine concerns. Many of the points you two makes sound a lot like the B.S. sprouting from Flightprep and their shady lawyers.
Allow me to be devils advocate for just a moment - just promise me not to read this if you dont have an open mind. I have no actual inside knowledge of any of these dealings but decided to contact flightprep for their explanation of what is going on. Their answer seems reasonable.
Can we all agree that there are usually 3 sides to every story and that so far we have only heard one of those sides? Has anyone here read their press release on the subject? How many of us are lawyers? My guess is that there are a few lawyers and many speculators. But my understanding is that the lawyers themselves don't "REALLY" know either.
SUPPOSEDLY - they did contact those companies prior to suing them. They even offered them temporary authorization to continue their work while they work out their negotiations. They refused to even answer the certified letters. Now we can argue until we are blue in the face but perhaps the prudent thing to do is let courts do their thing and if in fact flightprep is wrong, a nice countersuit seems inevitable.
I still don't know enough to make a decision about copyright vs patent. And I really hope to learn something new out of all this. I hope its possible to ask these questions and make these comments on this forum without people losing their minds. But someone has to ask the hard questions or there is no conversation just a bunch of people chanting the same rhetoric.
by the way, i know nothing about any of these companies involved. If flightprep is in the wrong aviation is a very small community :)
Can we all agree that there are usually 3 sides to every story and that so far we have only heard one of those sides? Has anyone here read their press release on the subject? How many of us are lawyers? My guess is that there are a few lawyers and many speculators. But my understanding is that the lawyers themselves don't "REALLY" know either.
SUPPOSEDLY - they did contact those companies prior to suing them. They even offered them temporary authorization to continue their work while they work out their negotiations. They refused to even answer the certified letters. Now we can argue until we are blue in the face but perhaps the prudent thing to do is let courts do their thing and if in fact flightprep is wrong, a nice countersuit seems inevitable.
I still don't know enough to make a decision about copyright vs patent. And I really hope to learn something new out of all this. I hope its possible to ask these questions and make these comments on this forum without people losing their minds. But someone has to ask the hard questions or there is no conversation just a bunch of people chanting the same rhetoric.
by the way, i know nothing about any of these companies involved. If flightprep is in the wrong aviation is a very small community :)
Flightpre is nothing more than a bully with lawyers. Flightprep lacks the skill and knowledge to create a "competing" product so they just hire lawyers to sue the better products out of business. I have joined the boycott of Flightprep. I will NEVER BUY ANY FLIGHTPREP PRODUCTS or buy any products related to Roger M. Stenbock or Kyle B. Everson who are the people hiding behind the lawyers.
It must have been a temp glitch, I still can see our conversation.
Why was our discussion erased?
Paul, Maybe you are a spy for the other companies involved? Haha.
Conspiracy theory aside, do we all agree there are three sides to every story?
Oh, and as for me, i am a captain at a fractional not connected in any way to any of the companies involved.