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Re: Newsreaders

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject Re: Newsreaders
Date 2015-03-29 12:48 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <cnqalnFj2crU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <mf749l$4eg$9@dont-email.me> <280320151600033196%michelle@michelle.org> <cnoqf5F7st2U1@mid.individual.net> <mf7prr$up5$2@dont-email.me> <1m22k56.b566tvqjxamN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>

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On 2015-03-29, Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
>
>> What happened to Brian Clarke, is it?  When I bought the app, I think it
>> was $25, I sent him the money with a nice note, I didn't know at the time
>> he had a "reputation".  Since then, I heard that he only would sell you
>> the upgrades/keys if he felt good at the time!
>> Coming from the world of OS/2, which I was also using at the time, I did
>> not understand pique by software writers(since most OS/2 software was
>> written by IBM employees!).
>
> Basically he had public tantrums over Thoth not selling well enough,
> being pirated, and accusations he stole open source code from
> NewsWatcher (used with permission in his free Yet Another NewsWatcher
><http://www.macorchard.com/classic/usenet/YetAnotherNewsWatcher.php>
> client - Thoth's predecessor) to use in Thoth.
>
> Rather than take a sensible approach to Thoth not selling well, such as
> simply not continuing development, or scaling back his support (as
> MacSOUP's author did), in order to meet the reality of the now tiny Mac
> Usenet client market; Brian threw several wobblies and on multiple
> occasions has revoked sales and thus codes to enable Thoth to run past
> it's trial period.
>
> If his fantasy of whatever number of sales would be required to feed his
> ego doesn't materialise, then dammit - he won't sell Thoth to _anyone_
> LOL.

That pretty much sums it up.

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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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Re: Newsreaders gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-03-28 09:17 -0700
  Re: Newsreaders sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-03-28 20:52 +0000
    Re: Newsreaders Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-03-28 16:00 -0700
      Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-28 23:06 +0000
        Re: Newsreaders sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-03-29 03:00 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-03-29 23:51 +1300
            Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-29 12:48 +0000
            Re: Newsreaders Buster Friendly <lah@de.da.ru.ru> - 2015-03-29 09:01 -0400
              Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-29 17:04 +0000
              Re: Newsreaders jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-03-30 13:37 +1300
      Re: Newsreaders jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-03-29 13:03 +1300
        Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-29 01:28 +0000

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