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Old 09-01-2009, 05:57 PM
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Natural Point is a business partner for 1C, Freetrack's maker isn't.
I'm a business partner of 1C and so is every other freetrack user: we buy 1C's products.

When you run a business and other people are making rival products you should
deal with that by competing with them by the production of superior
products at competitive prices; not by abuse of it's near-monopolistic position
to remove the competition (or, in this case, just the ingenuity of hobbyists).

Let's face it: If I can make a head tracking system for £15 that works as well as
NP's system at £160; the market desperately needs any competition it can get.
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Old 09-01-2009, 07:20 PM
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"I'm a business partner of 1C and so is every other freetrack user: we buy 1C's products."

Sorry to burst your bubble but I think the word you're groping for here is 'customer'. Purchasing a product does not make you a 'business partner'.

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Old 09-01-2009, 07:27 PM
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The same could be said of the NP/1C relationship.
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Old 09-02-2009, 03:34 AM
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Not necessarily. If NP helps 1C/Maddox Games with technical support and - maybe, probably? - an SDK to incorporate TIR's abilities into SoW (the same way i.e. Intel did for years and still does) this makes them business partners in my eyes.
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