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Dear mr. Duke,

As I mentioned here before, my policy is to respect the intellectual
property and wishes of variant inventors. Future releases of my software
will therefore not contain explicit support for any Falcon pieces.

What I already did cannot be undone. Neither do I see any moral obligation
to do so: I asked you for permission to do what I did, out of courtesy, and
you gave it in public on these pages. If you now want to take the stance of
a treacherous and backstabbing business partner... Well, it be so noted,
but I will of course ignore it in my actions.

I look forward to chatting with your attorney. The longer the better. I
hope you pay him well! :-) As far as I am aware of, your patent is not
valid in the part of the world where I live. And even if it were, there is
the tiny matter that the permission you gave will be considered legally
binding. It is immaterial if I spent 3 lines of code or 300,000 on it.
Perhaps my code is so good that it is worth $100,000 a line. ;-)