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Originally posted by toddy
granted most contract will ban any talk of money and terms etc, not very many ban people from announcing/telling the users about the sale.

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Patchou WAS NOT prohibited from telling about the sale. he did talked about it in his public blog.

He is prohibited to talk about the _details_ of the sale. Just like anyone else in any other business would be prohibited to talk about such things. And that is almost never limited to just talking about money.

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Originally posted by toddy
before you say its on his blog, how many people actually know about his blog? and possibly more important where would a average user expect to find details on a piece of software. The software's website/forum, or a personal blog of the (old) owner......

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1) Why on earth would Patchou tell about the fact he sold Yuna Software in his PUBLIC blog if he wasn't allowed or if they wanted to keep everything secret?
That simply would not make any sense at all.

2) What does it actually matter where it is posted? Even if it was posted in the local news paper only, it is still PUBLIC for EVERYBODY to read and thus EVERYBODY can know about it.

3) The link to his blog has been posted several times already on this forum.

4) Patchou's blog isn't the only indication of the sale. There are plenty other signs like the headers on the forum and websites, the digital signatures in the exe, the About box in Plus!. And all these things can by seen by anyone smart enough to read. Especially the About box, which is the very first thing people will look at if they are interested at who made the software.

Thus:
1) Patchou HAS talked about the sale in PUBLIC
2) There are MANY public signs of the sale, both on the forums, websites, and in Plus! itself
3) It is NO secret at all that he sold Yuna Software
4) NOBODY is trying to cover things up
5) NDAs are not only about money

Seriously people, use your commen sense!

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Originally posted by andrey
Oh come on, this discussion is getting ridiculous. All we want is a post by Patchou either explaining that he can't give any more details about the sale because of the contract or announcing when/if he can go into a bit more detail about it.

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Granted... But that would solve what? Many trustable people have already stated that he can't talk about the details.

Also, the fact that he can't talk about details should be plain common logic if you know a bit how such business is conducted in the real world.