Re: Slick's popping in-- FAQs history

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

"Donald C. Lee" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>    Goodness sake, Nathan became such a pain in the rear for the newsgroup
> when he took his vendetta against "X".  It certainly was not a fun
> time.  I didn't know what happened to the FAQ's because I dropped out of
> the newsgroup for some time.
>
>    Seems like a few folks know about the Delphi "thing".  Anyone care to
> "enlighten" us as to what exactly happened on Delphi?

Nathan made a comment that was removed by the moderator, while another posting, that he
thought was friendly to pirates, was allowed to remain.
At least, that's how I recall the posts I read, and the email that we had exchanged.

Nathan was/is right that piracy is particularly harmful to an orphan platform. What I
think he failed to realize is that it is common on all orphan platforms, as well, of
course, on supported platforms.

> I remember there
> was a mass exodus a while ago from many regulars to Delphi because CSA2
> had been branded rather "pirate friendly" by a few folks but I forget when
> that occured.
>
>    One thing about Nathan:  He doesn't seem to hold "sentiment" in high
> regard.  He wiped out his Apple II stuff like it was nothing.  If you do a
> search for his name on the web, he once had a humor archive.  He just
> simply decided that he didn't have time to update it nor the inclination
> to keep it around so bam it's gone.
>
>    It's unfortunate that Nathan took his skills with him when he left but
> it's a tough choice whether you would want Nathan still around but ranting
> occassionally.

He still posts in a newgroup where I lurk - one for programmers of games.

Roy

>
>
> Donald
>
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> Apple II user since 1983     "Our Hearts: Some people come into our lives
> and quickly go.  Some stay awhile and leave footprints on our hearts and
> we are never the same."
>
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, George Rentovich wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >     As far as Nathan was concerned, if you were not with him you were against him.
> > There was no middle ground.  He would rather have software die a bit death than,
> > than let a deprotected copy go any where to be preserved.
> > He was very talented, injected religion into almost everything, & was judgmental of
> > everyone.
> >    I bought  his HD off him when he was selling off all of his Apple II/IIgs items.
> > After all was sold,  he then claimed we were all ripping him off because we would
> > not give what we felt it was worth. Have not time to look at it, but I am sure he
> > formatted it and wrote zeros to every block at least a few times.
> >      Take Care
> >                George
> >
> >
> >