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01/26/2004, 9:00am, EST
Monday, January 26th
FWB source code available for sale on eBay
A MacNN reader notes that the source code to FWB's commercial products is available on eBay with a starting bid at $65,000: "This is the complete source code to the following FWB commercial software products: - Hard Disk ToolKit 4.5 - CD-ROM ToolKit 3.0 - DriveUp! 98 1.0. This collection includes the complete source code for all three commercial products. These retail products can be seen at: http://www.fwb.com. Hard Disk ToolKit is the Macintosh industry-leading utility for managing hard disk drives. All code is fully functional and ready to be ported to OS X. This private party sale includes all sources. It does *not* include the right to use the product names nor the FWB brand, name, or logo. This sale is by FWB Software, Inc. and is the legitimate sale of this Intellectual Property."
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Also, the seller has been around for a while, but mostly selling random PC hardware. It doesn't look particularly connected to FWB. It all comes across as pretty shady.
Also... $65,000 for the source code to a handful of successful products? That doesn't seem right. The source is the bread and butter of a software business. That amount would barely pay the salary, benefits, and overhead for a single engineer.
I also provide license to use whatever contents may be on the disc.
Let the bidding begin!
Sad for FWB no doubt. Good thing they we not in the open source "what is mine is yours" crowd. They wouldn't get jack. At least their code is an asset.
Who ever buys it is going to end up spending way too much on it in the long run.
Hell, I am selling hand painted editions of Red Hat Shrike CD's. Since I modified the Cd installs by adding my own personal artistic touch, I can sell for profit! Wow- the GPL rules!
I predict E-bay will take it down shortly (they have an unwritten policy against auctions that feature data on recordable CD's or DVD's. Even if the data is yours to distribute, they'll take the auction off and make you prove it.)