Re: Let's End This FAQ Dilemna

[!smentzer@pacbell.net (Steve Mentzer)]

Try deperately, but ultimately failing to sound intelligent, Steve White 
said...
>
>Guess it won't happen, then Paul, since I'll be around. I use my Apple
>II's and find this group useful.
>
>Mr. Mentzer is an admitted pirate, and I can't imagine how a FAQ that he
>helps to write is going to be useful, unless it is a FAQ on cracking.
>

Steve White - You are as clueless as ever.

Really now?  I am an "admitted pirate"?  Now the only thing I have "admitted 
to" was copying software some 10 years ago in the glorious apple II heyday! 
Yes, I pirated software like SkyFox and AppleWorks and stuff. I was 16 years 
old then, and well... I have no excuse for what I did. My only redeeming point 
was that I *did* purchase software like Turbo Pascal (remember the old nasty 
CP/M version) and Bards Tale 1-3 and Dragon Wars etc etc etc. Hey, I didn't 
pirate *everything*. But alas, I *was* a pirate at 16 years old. I will burn in 
hell.

Then again, I also used to throw over-ripe plums from a tree onto cars driving 
along a city street in Simi Valley too. So, I guess that means that I am still 
a vandal, right?

The fact, Mr.White is that I haven't admitted pirating software for any 
platform since I was a pimple faced geek ten years ago. Today I am a Senior 
Network Administrator/Software Designer for a large company making damn good 
money and *purchasing* all the software I own. 

Now, if you consider my use of "Bard's Tale" for the Apple //e on my //gs to be 
piracy, even though I no longer own the game, and I downloaded it from asimov, 
then so be it. I am not going to argue the point. But I don't consider my use 
of said software to be piracy. It is now 10 years after the fact. Get a clue. 
You can split hairs all day, but I am not a pirate.

If you have any further comments, take them to email. Your moronic and mostly 
irrelevent drivel is a detriment to the apple II community as a whole, and it 
is a shame that people like you even have internet access. Go away.

smentzer@pacbell.net