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 20:12:53 -0600 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <091220130719558666%michelle@michelle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Rv5eybOOrRdr1sBQNqoe9A7DJkc+JuxtPmZVnZVlFyhFZzorI9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mLuDsgHczsGBMWslBAqJS+DBIUk= User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:19984 comp.sys.mac.comm:2042 comp.sys.mac.system:53538 On 2013-12-20 01:48:22 +0000, Jolly Roger said: > On 2013-12-19, Lloyd E Parsons wrote: >> 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. > > I never said you couldn't have fun making money. Apparently you didn't > comprehend what I said. Read it again, and pay closer attention this > time. > >> And hopefully you two are finished with this round of the 'I hate Brian' crap! > > Are you Brian's mom or something? What do you care what people think > about him? In reality I don't care. What I do care about is the bitch-a-thon that usually starts and goes on and on ad nauseum whenever Brian's name comes up. -- Lloyd