A-EON Technology Acquires Personal Paint

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Looks like they have emailed everyone who hosted the files. I have an aminet mirror - and they of course emailed me to remove them.. doh.

I suggest everyone uploads lots of copies to their favourite hosting sites to avoid losing this software that has been freely available for years.

really stupid move.

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So what your saying is, if cloanto decided to remove their software from Aminet. They are not allowed to? So you own the software?

no. i said it was stupid to remove it, and if people want access to this software that has been freely available for YEARS they should keep some copies around / available.

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Why not remove it when it is freely available elsewhere..

This was handled badly. I completely understand why users might be upset about it. You should have made a version freely available then updated the aminet version pointing to it. You would have probably got more sales that way for the updated version too.

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A-EON Technology Ltd

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What the whingers don't seem to get is that the copyright holder might want to host the free downloads, of their older software, on their own site so that downloaders can be informed and kept up to date with improvements/free bug fixes/new versions.

It makes perfect sense.

Then this should have been made clear and it should have been done in a different order (making the file available first). I still think it would have been better to leave the original copy on aminet and just update the readme etc (could reference the website).

not rocket science.