Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd E Parsons Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Last Thoth? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:31:32 -0600 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <091220130719558666%michelle@michelle.org> <52b2f84e$0$46367$c3e8da3$3a1a2348@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net d69+ihIm4mcQmqF6Smz94AxMMRx8wrgxXvOgxQ3T+WYmDdP+rh Cancel-Lock: sha1:vNZALQ0pcUxj7lumoA7bV6SUZ2I= User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:19982 comp.sys.mac.comm:2040 comp.sys.mac.system:53534 On 2013-12-19 14:06:19 +0000, Jolly Roger said: > On 2013-12-19, Warren Oates wrote: >> In article , >> Jolly Roger wrote: >> >>> On 2013-12-09, Michael Vilain wrote: >>>> >>>> When I kept having to bug him to get updates, I asked why he couldn't >>>> add me to his mailing list. Apparently the software he uses doesn't >>>> support adding without invitation. Since he didn't differentiate between >>>> marketing and updates, I didn't subscribe and had to bug him. I got >>>> tired of it and asked for a refund rather than having to deal with him. >>>> He seems to think he's offering "excellent customer service" but I think >>>> he's just off his meds. >>>> >>>> Again, he's making writing software and supporting it personal. And now >>>> he's taking his ball and going home. Sooner or later, he'll have people >>>> just ignoring him for doing this sort of thing once to often. >>> >>> Sooner or later? Brian's asshat behavior got old for me long ago, and >>> I'm not even one of his customers. We can ignore the question of whether >>> he hijacked NewsWatcher source code to build Thoth. He's pulled this >>> kind of cry baby "software isn't paying for itself" shit before in the >>> past. I don't see the behavior changing. So I say fuck Thoth. Good >>> riddance. >> >> How old is this guy now? > > No idea. But when software development is more about making money than > having fun, it's time to stop writing software, IMO. Dude should find > another hobby. Some like to have fun making money. And hopefully you two are finished with this round of the 'I hate Brian' crap! -- Lloyd