Re: Ancient wares and present values

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:44:41 GMT, bobryan9@my-deja.com wrote:

>Whew, Some people.  I know who quantum Cat is now, and I am suprised
>you developers have such a crappy attitude towards the people you try
>to develop software for.  You developers have your heads shoved so far
>up your asses that the smell of shit is clouding your judgement.

I can only speak for myself here but I have a great attitude toward
the people I develop software for.  If it wasn't for them and their
positive feedback I probably wouldn't write stuff for the Apple II.
I'm sure my brother, who I make my living with writing software for
the PC, would be ecstatic if I were to give up on the Apple II and
just develop for the PC (eww, what an icky thought :-).

However, I do have a bad attitude towards brazen pirates and people
who attack my online friends.  Those are not the people I develop
software for.

>I could get your IP numbers as simple as 1-2-3, as you could mine.

Sure, but how does that help identify who is at the IP address?  By
the way, my IP address is dynamic which won't make things any easier
for you to track me down.

>It's nice to know that Jeff Blakeney defends scum.  I understand your
>anti-piracy attitude and beliefs.  Your defense of an Apple II
>developer posting crap to this newsgroup anonymously is just ridiculous.

I don't defend Q_C.  I am amused by some of his postings and I get a
little upset with his language sometimes (especially when he first
arrived in this newsgroup) but I don't defend him.  I do agree with
most of his statements, though.

>Oops.  He hasn't released anything for a time now, so I guess he's not
>an active developer.  I guess I can split the hairs before you get to
>them.  Now, can you split a split hair?  That is the question.

I don't understand this statement at all.  As far as I know Q_C isn't
a developer at all but I can't be certain so I don't even bother
conjecturing about whether he is an active developer or not.

>Is it?  Thats your opinion.  I can see why you don't want spam.  You
>don't want to deal with it.  I can see why someone posts anonymously,
>because they are a coward.

It seems to me that both methods provide the same result.  How does
one method make you a coward and the other not?

>If you want to post anonymously, go to dejanews.  Don't check your mail
>for the fairytale mail bombs "quantum cat" mentions.

They aren't fairy tales.  I've met several people who have had their
machines attacked and I'm pretty sure mine has been too.  Probably
just bored hackers in my case but all I did was shut down my machine.

>My opinion of some of the "elite" of the apple II has been drastically
>lowered today.  You are a major source of noise on this newsgroup.

I only respond to the postings of others promoting illegal activities
or other statements that need to be corrected.  If they don't post
about that kind of stuff, I won't reply to it.

Other than that, I'm more than happy, and actually prefer, to just
discuss the Apple II.

>quantum cat is playing games, and anybody with a mind of their own can
>draw their own conclusions based on YOU defending him.

Like I said, I don't defend Q_C but I often agree with his statements.

>I don't endorse piracy.  I don't download things I don't legally own
>(unless it's hardware drivers I "need").

Neither does Q_C, as far as we know.  In fact, he takes people to task
for promoting piracy.  Why do you have a problem with that?

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