John,
>Just curious... do you know whether the requested figure of 1500 Euros has some sort of significance?
Not that I know of.

>an alternative viewpoint: how many members in the German Fox User Group which apparently owns FoxRockx?
currently about 1000 AFAIK.

>Maybe somebody in the user group should approach the other members/shareholders to ask if they're willing to invest another few Euros each to make this problem go away.

I think giving in on blackmail is wrong. While it would probably resolve to current issue, the problem might still try to raise other issues <g> or copy-cats might awaken. Making the reason known to the public is a nice defense, especially against somebody probably craving public attention for his own brilliance more than others.

regards

thomas