Re: No CD of Asimov

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <51qj97$hg3@crl12.crl.com>, Sam Ismail <dastar@crl.com> wrote:
>Kevin (kkralian@aros.net) wrote:
>: free advertising for the sequel, which is for sale now... We express
>: ourselves through our programming, and for that to be meaningful people
>: have to see/play our work. This is the mentality of most software authors.

>Brother, you said it.  This is something only programmers can comprehend.
>I can only assume that Nathan is not a programmer, of if he is, he's
>only fooling himself (and trying to include us in his charade).

   Oh, I'm not a programmer, am I? WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHO
I AM? Take a look at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/njmgssoft.html and
tell me that the megabytes of source code I've created are nothing
more than a figment of my imagination. Tell me that the *PUBLISHED*
programs I've written never went out. Tell me that the Bachelor of
Science degree I earned from the California Institute of Technology
for Engineering & Applied Science with an emphasis in Computer Science
came from too mant underwater basketweaving classes. Tell Dave Lyons
and company at Apple that the bugs I found in GS/OS don't exist. Tell
my boss where I'm working that I have a *very* good video tape demoing
Ten Pin Alley for the Sega Saturn on the TV at my desk, and that the
footage was ripped from elsewhere.

   You're a damn fool if you can just walk in and start saying things
without checking the facts. But, since you lost the war about Asimov's
legality, all you can do it try personal attacks. In the words of so
many Basketball commentators, your attack on my programming expertise
has been DEEEE-NIED.

   I *AM* a programmer. You must have me mistaken with someone who
doesn't give a damn. I have the right to do what I want with my
programs. Some I release as Freeware, others get sold. That's a nice
little *choice* I and/or whomever funded the software get to
make. Maybe in your world, programmers get no choice in what happens.
However, I exist, am real, and will continue to be in your face until
you get a clue as to how this world operates.

Nathan Mates
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