[Coco] PopStar Pilot blog offline

[Brian Blake]

On 2/24/2015 11:49 AM, Al Hartman wrote:
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> So, don't treat me like I'm nobody, who has done nothing for anybody 
> else, and wants to sit on 30 year old laurels.
>

Al,

I'm not trying to treat you like that. I'm simply trying to point out 
how your email came across. Nothing more. I'm not trying to diminish 
your products - pretty sure I bought a copy of the Car Sign Designer a 
few years back (have two, one came from eBay). The software you had a 
hand in creating was cool stuff.

Nick was throwing ideas out there for a feature improved MPI. And I 
could see your point of view, and don't explicitly disagree. However, 
the email you sent was pretty heavy handed - rude, in my opinion. That's 
all I'm trying to point out. Nick has written some pretty impressive 
software as well and is pretty well versed in software development, and 
I sure wouldn't blame him for being offended. That may not have been 
your intent, but, it came across that way too me.

I've never authored software (unless you count a program written in 
AutoLISP for AutoCAD) or built an electronic device to be sold. I used 
to be a mechanical design engineer. Equipment that I designed and helped 
build resided in Ford Michigan truck plant, St. Louis plant and the GM 
truck plant in Moraine, Ohio (may it R.I.P.) and the Needmoore Road 
Delphi plant in Dayton, Ohio. I'm now MIS Director for a non-profit in 
Florida. None of which has anything to do with the CoCo.

My first computer being a CoCo is why I'm on this list. Since I don't 
code or design, I have a website, blog, and provide a seldom used forum 
for people to discuss CoCo related topics. That's the only way I have of 
giving back.

I don't want anybody to leave to CoCo community, not Al, Nick or anybody 
else. I just want the attrition rate of CoCoNutz to drop to zero. Not 
many of us left, and the more infighting we have, the worse it's going 
to get. If we don't start doing positive things to get others 
interested, and keep them, Tom's prediction of the group eating it's own 
will happen.

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