Tell It Like It Is

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Tell It Like It Is - Part 1

Copyright (c) 1997 by Charles T. Turley

This is an article I've been holding back on for years now. I
was going to post it as a reply to the last CSA2 post
concerning me, expressed by Sheldon Simms III last Monday.
But, many of my friends told me to hold off on it for a while.
Well, I've held of far to long now. It's time to tell it like
it is.

Sheldon,

Your feelings on everything in detail - rambling as they were,
are duly noted by me and some 25,000 other CSA2 readers also.
Allow me to ramble back to you and all the other some 25,000
other CSA2 readers with some hard facts on all the issues you
addressed in your rambling post. I suggest you provide ample
documentation to prove your conclusions which you and I both
know are based on biased gossip, rumors, hearsay and years of
Genie forum chatter, plus two of the most abusive web pages on
the Internet devoted to destroying my every effort to do some
good for the A2 community. They are both nothing more than a
sick collective of jive, ignorant speculation, lies, twisted
misinformation and garbage based on a complete and very well
contrived collection from people that don't know jack about
any of the facts surrounding the issues presented about me.

It all started with a really slick snow-job Joe Kohn pulled on
me over four years ago, by stealing a copy of my secured
back-up copy of a beta of Spectrum v1.0, coded with the name
Dr. Tom in it, by Earl Childers, President of Seven Hills
Software and mailed to me by him for the purpose of having it
translated to Kanji by members of the 1WSW team that lived in
Japan, namely; Yushi (author of the program Jpeg Viewer -
pre-release) and Dr. Suzuki. Joe Kohn made illegal copies of
the beta, stored at a friends home (Al Switzer) along with a
practice personal sector edited disk I had been learning with
by using Copy II+, which was originally sector edited by
somebody else that gave it the name OctaPaint.  I sector
edited it to rename it OmniPaint, it was never intended for
release or distribution to any public area, service or online
site. I never took part in nor assisted in making any of them
available to the public.

Joe Kohn made copies of both and several other private and
confidential disks that I had in a box at Al Switzer's home
for private safe keeping, without Al's knowledge or consent,
to discredit me, because I obtained the rights to the FTA
programs Noise Tracker, FontrixGS, Photonix II and many others
from the FTA's President - Olivier Goguel, to allow me to
continue with freeware updates with them.  Olivier had the
rights to them all and gave me the rights to them all for that
purpose, furnishing the src. codes to me also. And, I have his
original letter to prove it too. I passed them on to others to
assist with the updates in 1993.

Joe Kohn in turn wanted me to give them to him to develop and
sell, which I refused to do.  So, Joe Kohn, in turn made a
verbal promiss to me that he would see to it that I would be
discredited with anything I ever did in the Apple II community
- if I didn't do as he requested. (I have on audio tape from
that telcon with him) He stated he was a very influencial and
powerful man in the A2 community and would ruin my every Apple
II effort if I didn't do as he insisted.

He then lived up to that promise by making illegal copies of
the box of software I had safely (or so I thought) stored for
back-up purposes at Al Switzer's home, then made the copies
available to Ian Schmidt and several others, to spread them
(without my consent or even without my knowledge) all over the
Internet, ftp sites and BBS' in 1993.  They all did a very
through job of circulating them around the world also. Without
my knowledge, consent or involvement in any manner.

At that time I didn't even know the Internet existed as it
does, in it's complex structure - nor how to even access it.
Everything I released such as the Vamps, NTV's and the updates
to Noise Tracker, Fontrix, the other unfinished software from
the FTA, etc. and from Olivier Goguel's own unfinished
programs (that he transfered all the rights to me for such
efforts) were uploaded by friends of mine, Larry Knox and
Ronald Melon  - legally to AOL by both of them for me. At that
time I didn't even have access myself to AOL, Genie or
CompuServe nor any other BBS or ftp site.

Part 2 will follow this Part 1 post