I'm not sure why you owe them any money. I think not. IANAL, but they cannot arbitrarily fine you. Not without a hearing and a judgement against you. The 2500 Euros seems like a scare tactic and they know darned well they are not entitled to it with said judgement against you.
So change the name and forget about the money and move on. If they send you more email/letters asking for money, put them where they belong, in/dev/null or the trashcan.
The best debugger is your brain analyzing the observable behaviour of the code. Read it, study it. Fix the bugs based on that. With a debugger, you tend to fix symptoms, not the disease. Anything else is second best at best.
Almost all of the Linux kernel was debugged that way.
"The LSM is a directory of information about each of the software packages available via FTP for the Linux operating system. It is meant to be a public information resource. All entries have been entered by volunteers all over the world via email using the template below..."
Radio Shack is one of the last companies I would expect to see this from. They were the hardware hobbiest's friend for many many years and I have built a lot of small projects and prototypes using their parts. Used to be, stuff came with schematics in the manuals. They were open with everything. Even sold the Color Computer ROM dissasembly books in some stores.
Now their hardware selection is almost nothing and they are tolerating this harassment of people for figuring out how use to hardware they give away. What is the world coming to?
(If Radio Shack said stop the harassement, surely this dinky little company would have no real choice).
Linuxcad is not a replacement for autocad. They are so ashamed of it that they have added a term to their license that supposedly prevents you from talking about your experiences. It also will cost more than $99, a lot more. It has a very poor user interface that will not be familiar to an Autocad user. It took 'em two years to fix a buffer overrun crash if you type too long a comand. It does not accept the spacebar as a command delimiter. Its menus are totally different. It does not accept x,y,z 3D points. It does not read.dwg. It does not write dxf or dwg files (without extra cost add-ons). It does not do Lisp. Its drawing area is fixed and does not resize with window size changes. The list of differences (and inferiorities) goes on and on.
It is nothing more than a completely different, not nearly as good, CAD package that is shamelessly comparing itself to Autocad. I'm amazed AutoDesk hasn't sued these guys, however they are. About the only similarity is that the command to draw a line is "line". All in all, I believe their newsgroup spams and their website (which is a windoze based server BTW) is a pack of lies and these "guys" should be avoided like the plague. There is a review at http://pweb.netcom.com/~rwuest/linuxcadreview.html .
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I'm not sure why you owe them any money. I think not. IANAL, but they cannot arbitrarily fine you. Not without a hearing and a judgement against you. The 2500 Euros seems like a scare tactic and they know darned well they are not entitled to it with said judgement against you.
/dev/null or the trashcan.
So change the name and forget about the money and move on. If they send you more email/letters asking for money, put them where they belong, in
The best debugger is your brain analyzing the observable behaviour of the code. Read it, study it. Fix the bugs based on that. With a debugger, you tend to fix symptoms, not the disease. Anything else is second best at best.
Almost all of the Linux kernel was debugged that way.
"The LSM is a directory of information about each of the software packages available via FTP for the Linux operating system. It is meant to be a public information resource. All entries have been entered by volunteers all over the world via email using the template below..."
ftp://ftp.execpc.com/pub/lsm/LSM.README
Radio Shack is one of the last companies I would expect to see this from. They were the hardware hobbiest's friend for many many years and I have built a lot of small projects and prototypes using their parts. Used to be, stuff came with schematics in the manuals. They were open with everything. Even sold the Color Computer ROM dissasembly books in some stores.
Now their hardware selection is almost nothing and they are tolerating this harassment of people for figuring out how use to hardware they give away. What is the world coming to?
(If Radio Shack said stop the harassement, surely this dinky little company would have no real choice).
Build a house and that'll impress me :)
Linuxcad is not a replacement for autocad. They are so ashamed of it that they have added a term to their license that supposedly prevents you from talking about your experiences. It also will cost more than $99, a lot more. It has a very poor user interface that will not be familiar to an Autocad user. It took 'em two years to fix a buffer overrun crash if you type too long a comand. It does not accept the spacebar as a command delimiter. Its menus are totally different. It does not accept x,y,z 3D points. It does not read .dwg. It does not write dxf or dwg files (without extra cost add-ons). It does not do Lisp. Its drawing area is fixed and does not resize with window size changes. The list of differences (and inferiorities) goes on and on.
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It is nothing more than a completely different, not nearly as good, CAD package that is shamelessly comparing itself to Autocad. I'm amazed AutoDesk hasn't sued these guys, however they are. About the only similarity is that the command to draw a line is "line". All in all, I believe their newsgroup spams and their website (which is a windoze based server BTW) is a pack of lies and these "guys" should be avoided like the plague. There is a review at http://pweb.netcom.com/~rwuest/linuxcadreview.htm
Do your homework and save yourself $99.