Amiga.org welcomes Elbox as an advertiser.

[Madgun68]

@Wayne

The AWD used to announce new advertisers to let everyone know who made the site possible. We never have, and judging by the stupidity and rudeness of some of the comments I'm seeing here, I begin to understand exactly why we didn't do this before.

I say go for it. Those comments are just as you say.. Stupid.

It *IS* true that someone found code in the elbox spider driver(s) that could trash the rdb. The code was never used in the driver, and I don't recall hearing a single instance of a spider owner suffering a rdb trashing.

Furthermore, Elbox did realise their error. The offending code was quickly removed.

The worst part about the whole thing were/are the people complaining.. Almost none of the people who constantly complain about Elbox use their products.

My 1200T uses three Elbox products, and I've been nothing but happy with them.

[Madgun68]

Anyone not familiar with what happened can read the letter Elbox posted about it here: Elbox letter

Personally, I've used the drivers mentioned with my Amiga for the past year, and I've not once had a problem with this or heard of it happening to anyone else. I wouldn't doubt that the drivers for my Powerflyer have/had similar code. If this was such a serious issue, considering how many times I've crashed the machine with my stupid programming tricks, you'd think I'd have seen it at least once.

Do I think Elbox had a right to protect their software? YES
Do I think Elbox chose the best method of doing so? NO
Do I think that this issue has been blown way out of scope and is now being used as a pesonal vendetta against the company by a few individuals? YES