declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) (11/09/90)
In article <10397@ubc-cs.UUCP>, burkhold@cs.ubc.ca (Mike Gobbi) writes: > Your a jerk. > > A complete, utter, and total jerk. > > I've met Robert Lin in passing, and I think he's a very nice > guy. If I needed iwscript, I would sooner pay $25 for Robert's > code than use code written by an arrogant pig (that's YOU). > > Regardless of the quality of anyone's software, no one deserves > to be ridiculed over the net for writing shareware, especially a > very useful piece of shareware that was the first of it's kind. > > And by the way, haven't you heard of capitalism? It's the reason > why you're able to pound out senseless drivel on a very expensive > piece of technology and it is the reason why Robert Lin is able to > charge whatever the traffic will bear for is software. (Which, after > all, is not that expensive.) Let's not start a flame war on here. Comp.sys.next usually gets quality posts, and this is the quickest way to see that quality disappear overnight. I know Robert quite well, and he's decidedly NOT the Wicked Evil Programmer Who Wants To Make Money From Wretched Software - not the person that Eric would make him seem. He's a great guy who likes NeXTs and writes software for them - for a living. The NeXT community needs more people like him - and like Eric - to write shareware and public domain utilities that will make the NeXT platform a pleasure to use. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh / NeXT Campus Consultant \ declan@remus.rutgers.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------