Re: Ian vs. The GS Community

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

mquattro@chat.carleton.ca (Michael Quattrocchi) writes:

>I've seen enough of this stuff going on here. Please cease and desist
>this crap, unless you're both dedicated enough to it to do it in email.

  I was publically attacked. I felt I had to respond, at least once.
I believe my response was on the whole very civil and free of flammable
material. I believed that the facts of the situation, including
some ludicrous motives that were assigned to me, were highly distorted,
and I wanted to set the record straight. I barely find time to eat, 
let alone defend myself like this, daily.

>So many of the people that are left in the IIgs world have this "fairy-land"
>attitude about them, like it's "us against the horrible pc world", or
[..]
>Get real. 

  I own a PC, so I _know_ it's not "us against the PC world". In fact,
I wrote discQuest, so I'm one of the people who realizes just how useful
the PC world can be to us. Same goes for products like the Blue Disk,
PCTransporter (for all its flaws), Pointless, etc etc.

>But too many of the IIgs' most impressive advances have come
>within the past two or three years, long after many developers began
>to drop out, after a+ disappeared, etc. All most of them ever did was
>produce slow, human-interface compliant crap, which preferred to use
>an 800k disk drive as it's master.

>Both of you have created some of the most impressive stuff for the
>IIgs that has ever been created. And some of both of your works remain
>permanent fixtures on my hard drive. 

>Jawaid, i'll undoubtedly buy a Second Sight when they are released,
>but dude, kill this constant crap about having a job, etc. If a
>homeless man wrote gs-tcp, i wouldn't care if he had a job or not,
>just that he'd done the community a service by writing software for it.
>Take it to email.

  Let's drop this talk of "doing the community a service". I do as
much Apple II stuff as I do because it makes money! :-)  I like the II
world because it's fun, but if I couldn't make a living at it I'd sure
spend a lot less time at it. 

  Thanks for your support.

  BTW, if a homeless guy did write/finish up TCP/IP, I wouldn't thank
him, I'd pay him. :)

>Am i to be flamed for only stating the obvious? I'm embarrassed enough
>that I had to waste bandwidth telling two of the IIgs' remaining
>pillars of strength to give it up on comp.sys.apple2.      

  There's one person on this newsgroup who is wielding a flame thrower,
and it isn't you, and it isn't me. I'm being AMAZINGLY civil, considering
my respectable capabilities, talent, and experience in the art
of written demolition. :-)

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