I am terribly sorry that this happened, and I must confess that I don't understand it. I will get in touch with Maz today and try to solve it, however since Maz decided to post this before he tried to reach me I think I have the right to defend myself against the attack. Before I go into details: I did not steal any code or concept from him, I do not and I will never do so. period. dot. 1) Several years ago, I decided to add PCF encoding/decoding to Maconverter. I worked out the encoding scheme by observation myself, but got in touch with Maz about a couple of oddities. For the following months we collaborated in order to improve and bugfix the format. 2) Maz once offered to give his source code for a Mac port, and he offered it to me as well. As a matter of fact, he never gave it to me, because I didn't need it. He is using a PC framework that doesn't exist on Mac, so the source is mostly useless for this purpose, and I decided to code the encoding/decoding myself. I repeat it - I never saw the source code for Mover. 3) I met Maz two times in person and we talked a lot about a follow up to the PCF format, I even made a design suggestion for the format itself. It was designed in a way that Maz could do a PC version and I do the Mac version (which means a lot of compromises). For various reasons it got delayed again and again, and we lost touch for nearly a year. 4) Last year I discovered a new framework which enables me to code a tool for both Mac and PC, and because the need of such a tool is obvious, I started to write a new one. It no longer got the need to compromise the format in order to code it with two different frameworks on two different platforms, so it got a lot of advantages. 5) I just felt a bit sad because it means that I was going to make a new development without Maz (who became a friend for me, and I knew that he was working on his tool as well). I contacted him several times last year, I even sent him an early test version of the tool user interface, but never got a reply about this. However, Maz rarely posted on the boards during this long time as well, so I assumed he was just terribly busy. 6) A few weeks ago, I contacted him again about my recent plans. I know that a couple of commercial users already use PCF in return of the promise to buy the commercial version one day. Because of this, I suggested Maz to share the fee of my tool for the selected list of those artists. Maz has nothing to do with the new tool, but I thought that it is a friendly gesture. I did not get any reply from him. 7) I repeat it one more time: I do not use the PCF format for any commercial purpose. I do not even use the suggested "TCF" format that we once discussed (and which actually was almost entirely created by me). I'm working on a completely new tool with a completely new format which is much advanced over the earlier suggestions. 8) The only thing that I may have done wrong is the fact that I used the term "follow up to the PCF format" in my description. To my knowledge "follow up" means that it is something new, like "DVD" is the "follow up" to "VHS". It was meant this way, I just quoted PCF to give people an idea what the whole thing is about. It did not mean that it uses any code/concept/technology from PCF. If Maz would have contacted me once over the last year, if he would have asked me once about things like this, we could have easily worked it out - I could have sent him this text. However, he decided to attack me straight away here on this board - I am very sorry about this, and I can only hope that he will calm down now.