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I've had a KryoFlux for a number of years, but I feel like I have been seeing a lot of people who aren't fans of their recently... do you know why people don't

I've had a KryoFlux for a number of years, but I feel like I have been seeing a lot of people who aren't fans of their recently... do you know why people don't like them?

rasz 6y ago
https://www.kryoflux.com/download/LICENCE.txt https://www.kryoflux.com/download/LICENCE.txt >people who aren't fans tldr: just fuck off already, you sold me the gizmo, you have no rights to anything I do with it
- cortesoft 6y ago
  I don’t see anything bad in the license? Am I missing something?
  - rasz 6y ago
    They claim rights to things you can and cannot do post sale. This is a "good" version. Previously they also claimed copyrights over anything you ripped with their tools.
betamaxthetape 6y ago
Jason Scott (textfiles on HN) explained[1] the main reasons that make several people (including myself) uncomfortable with KyroFlux. (sidenote: the author of FluxEngine[2] replied to that thread, which is where I first heard about it) [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/buyj9f/til_that_computer_archivists_image_the_magnetic/epjwsut/ https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/buyj9f/ti... [2] http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/ http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/