There I am reading the official forums when I see a post : Apez Sold Yet Again, WTF I thik, Apez is still going? Seriously? Apez? However no, it’s a necropost, updated by Wiseguy Capra whose business merged with Apez back in its heyday. Apez was a nice system and had a nice rental system.
However Wiseguy wants to know what happened to the assets associated with Apez, as he owns the intellectual property rights to some of those assets and he’s making a return to Second Life, in his post he says:
“Sorry for digging this up after all the time that has passed but I need to clarify my own stand in this matter.
In late 2008 SLCI – SL Content Innovations joined forces with Apez. At that time the entire product line which was known under the [SLCI] brand was moved over to Apez, re-branded and then available for sale until Cenji decided to sell Apez.
During that time I moved to Spain and had more important things on mind than SL. However, when the news about Cenji selling Apez popped I made it very clear that the [SLCI] products will remain [SLCI] prooperty and may not be sold to any 3rd party nor may any 3rd party be given any permission to sell those products.
This includes:
- Control-Demon Home Control (builders and private editions)
- All modules available for CD including the security system, mailbox, teleporter etc
- All [SLCI] created texture packs including the terrain texture pack which has always been one of the best selling in SL
- Multi-Media Rack, Radio player and all prefabs created by [SLCI] and sold under Apez.
So whoever the new owner of Apez is I don’t wish to see any of those products in SL. Yes I have been away for a couple of years but the copyright of all those products remains with me. I still have all the original texture files and control-demon source code and ANY [SLCI] products found on “ApezProducts Engineer” (now called ApezProducts Tomorrow” are my intelectual property.
Control-demon will return to SL soon. All current owners of the builders edition will receive a update in the next weeks.
Also, if anybody knows who bought Apez in the end please message me.”
All I know is that things didn’t end well for Apez. Rumours started circling in the Autumn of 2010 that all wasn’t well. The website was too quiet, transactions were failing, people couldn’t make withdrawals. Then came the news that Apez were basically experiencing a run on the bank, although they weren’t a bank!
Cenji sought interested parties to take over the business. CasperTech stepped in to help with migration of Apez users to their system, but they did not take over the business. However a company called Egoisme did step in, but I don’t know what they took on.
This brings us full circle back to the necropost, because that thread starts with news that egoisme had sold Apez, but to whom isn’t revealed, the trail goes cold for me there, anyone know what happened?
Id like to know as well