Dear Mr.Tourville,

I am very dissapointed by your last letter. You not
only addressed none of my concerns but even fell back
behind terms recently agreed to by your attorneys.
I am not willing to start discussing these matters
again. My position is clearly outlined in my last
email, and you have had enough options to choose from
and time to decide.

Also, I find it quite disturbing being approached
by reporters, who have been wrongly informed by Jim Philipps
about details of our supposedly confidential discussions.
Even several IPIX-fans, who publicly insulted me, and who
I contacted by email, knew details about our meeting,
which they could only have obtained from inside IPIX. 

I for my part will not break my promises to keep some
issues we have discussed confidential. However, I will not 
extend this promise, and from now on will publicly document
this case again, including this email, and reiterate my 
proposal for an agreement:

- I will not use or describe the IPIX-file format. There is
no legal obligation whatsoever to do that, and I will do it as 
a pure courtasy.

- In return IPIX publicly acknowledges that none of their rights in
any country is  infringed by my program 'Panorama Tools', 
or by any of the documents and contents currently distributed 
at my site (ie without the IPIX-page).

I repeat that this concession of mine goes far beyond what
you could expect even if you were right with all your lawyers'
accusations combined. You declined to accept this agreement
and demand to throw away my work as a free favour while
reserving the right to go against my other publications as well.
It appears to me now that this has only been a start for you, 
and you are planning more threats and legal actions for the 
future, until finally another competitor has been eliminated.

I hear your President Jeff Peters said that IPIX is 'commited 
to changing and becoming more developer friendly in regards to 
rights, license, and sales tactics'. Well, why don't you listen
to him? 


Sincerely yours

Prof. H. Dersch