Re: Charlez Turley

[guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin)]

Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat (GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH) wrote:
: In <5duv14$sl4@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de> guenter@student.uni-kl.de writes:

: > Before anybody decides to fry Dr. Tom, I would like to remind him that he
: > has *defended* a commercial programmer when somebody wrote a bad GenieLamp
: > review of Operation Lambda. I have already noticed that Dr. Tom can be a
: > formidable enemy to all the Flame Masters and Inquisitor-types around there,
: > but I still believe that his good side outweighs the other.

: So, you are basically saying: let's pirate folks as long as you help grandma
: crossing the street.

Nope. I only close both eyes if nobody is hurt by piracy. If I see anybody
pirating NEW stuff, I will act, although I am not the type of person who
persuades with the spiked club.

:  Marvin, a pirate is a pirate

Disagreed! Read my posting regarding 'piracy'. Judging things in black
and white is never good.

: If you still haven't realized how much harm he did to the
: Apple II (namely by pissing off most developers except for those he might
: profit from), then I'm wondering what else he has to do until you consider him
: a pirate. The few newbies he showed the way to the system software at
: ftp.apple.com is something many out there would have done, too.

I don't endorse all of Dr. Tom's deeds. I only feel some of his deeds
are good. Others are definitely not! I am no devotee of Dr. Tom.
 
: Attention, some c.s.a2 frequenters have brains.
:  
: Cheers & Bless You,

Thanks.

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