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yes, but I think since I am trying to stop the profit making from things such as PartyHandTracker and HHSmithey, the fact that I have openly published it like this (for free) will be in its favour.
I think Party, and similar type companies, really only have two concerns about such software:
1) Is the presence of such software 'talked' about a lot, to the extent that the amount of talk could hurt their market (ie. scare players away)
2) Does the software provide some level of unfair advantage?
Their publicity material talks about their disliking companies who sell such software (or related services), but it is not at all clear that Party mean that giving it away for free is any better. Possibly the idea of someone giving something useful away for free never occured to them!
I wouldn't put too much reliance on Party's written word (
"We do not scan your hard drive or take screen shots from your machine.").
Your program, whether it is free or not, will increase the likelihood of Party responding to its type, because it, and your releasing it, suffers from both #1 and #2 above.
The question is whether you see Party's increased likelihood of responding as a positive, or negative, consequence to your action?
If you want the technique blocked (if you see this as beneficial to poker), then you've done the right thing, and should continue to do so.
If your issue is to do with people selling products that you could write for free, so you do it, and undercut their market, then I don't really understand this. The world is full of people who can do things I cannot (eg. make shoes, give lapdances, etc), and I am happy to pay for their services - if I want them. Or not to pay for them if I don't (as I chose with HHSmithey and PHT).
As skilful and knowledgaable as you are, you're going to be a very busy person if you don't like people charging for anything you can do.
In the event that you agree with me Juk, please do not change your behaviour until
after you have written a quality replacement for Windows, a spam blocker, and a totally effective virus blocker. I'd be very appreciative