Re: Getting Hierarchic CDev (was not a Wolf3d Bug)

[jeffr@bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)]

In article <71KK.293$FG4.569813@ptah.visi.com>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>
>   Richard Bennett has uploaded it to Delphi and GEnie, where paying
>customers can download it. If enough of the pirating jerks and liars
>apologized and left the csa2 scene, he might consider the internet a
>place where actual GS supporters are, as opposed to the bottom of the
>barrel for quality clued people.

Geez Nathan!  If paying money to some company is the criteria you use to
define someone as a "GS supporter", then you need help.  First of all,
I've got better ways to spend my money: for the little that I'd be
able to connect to these services, it isn't worth it for me.  Are you
going to visit my WWW page (http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ds876/apple.html)
and tell me I'm not a supporter?

Second, all Dr. Tom has to do is pony up some cash, and hey! presto!
he's a bona fide supporter.  Makes perfect sense.

Mr. Bennett (and anyone else) has every right to exclude his software
from internet distribution.  But trying to act as if there is some
rational basis to such a decision, founded on the moral and intellectual
quality of the people who read csa2 (exclusively) or visit FTP and WWW
sites, is a foolish waste of time.

Attitudes like yours *will* eventually drive people like me out of csa2,
but they sure won't drive us onto Delphi.  But I suppose you'll just
use that as proof that we're not committed supporters.

Sheesh.
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