Re: GS Icon file Verifier released

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <gf23674@pro-palmtree.cts.com>,
Richard Der <rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com> wrote:
>1) While you surely have the RIGHT to restrict distribution of this
>software, WHY do so? Surely wider distribution and more users is
>better.

   As has been said before, I uploaded it to the major ftp sites,
which anyone looking for quality GS software will check out. If you
got your software from only one place, you'd be missing out on a lot
of quality stuff, especially if you only checked a minor site like
Turley's one. If I alienate the 2% who only do that, so be it.
 
>2) Please don't flame. If you refrain from flaming, your
>contributions to the apple community will speak for themselves
>(excellent T2 modules, by the way!). Some people get turned off by
>flames (myself included) and that does the apple community no good.
>Especially if new users get driven off.

   90% of my flames are aimed at those who persist in posting wrong
info and personal attacks on myself. I will not stand for those. It's
the way I am. Truth and the facts count for more than civility, and if
you think otherwise, there's a _big_ problem-- you are on the road to
a society where anyone can claim that their feelings are being hurt to
get their way, even if it's wrong.


>4) There is a link in your web page to the asimov site that is
>offensive to some people. Is it possible for you to remove it?
>Asimov has a bunch of pirated software including AppleWorks.

   Toasted. 

Nathan Mates

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