On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Simon Wise <simonzwise@gmail.com> wrote:

so the problem then was originally an unintended side effect of a different policy. Then it was brought to their attention, at that time they considered it seriously enough to consult their lawyers and make a serious response.

They actively decided not to change their policy and continued to refuse to license FLOSS distribution of binaries for the next 10 years.

So a decade later it is no longer an oversight or mistake, it is now an active "we don't care".

steinberg has been sold twice during that interval. you might feel that FLOSS issues are important. i can assure you that anyone who ever felt remotely that way at steinberg in 2001 is either no longer at the company or is so irrelevant to what its current owners do that it makes no difference.