Brian, I was in no way trying to say this was your fault. I was simply stating that people make mistakes. If I was the one who had my work taken and used without my consent, then I would simply contact the offending person off-list and let them know to what extent I was willing to go to get them to remove whatever had offended me. Some things like this are much better covered in private versus public. Your request was for the person to make a public appology and remove the content that was yours to begin with and as far as I know that is exactly what happened. At that point you should have removed anything demeaning to the person from your website also. Sorry if you have taken my statement out of context.
Doug B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:16 AM Subject: Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community > >You know, if people acted like people this type of thing would not go on > >like this. I do not know Brian and I do not know Ben, but as a man and a > >human being, I know well enough to go directly to the horses mouth and talk > >to the person that I have a problem with instead of bashing them on an open > >mailing list. I completely understand Brians position, but feel that it > >could have been handled more professionally. I am kind of wondering why > >Brian has not taken down his little comments on his site demeaning Ben? I > >think with the heart felt appology, it should dissapear, or else Brian risk > >showing a lack of professionalism on his part also. > > Hi Doug, > > I find your comment about "if people would just act like people this type of thing would not go on" quite interesting. You have somehow decided that this incident was my fault. Thanks, that's quite being a "man/human being" of you. > I am not even sure why I have to defend myself on this issue, but there are quite a number of folks in this community that have decided to play judge, jury and executioner. > Ben posted his site with my content on a Friday, I responded publicly on Saturday. Prior to this incident, I did not know Ben Nadel. So it's 14 questions on Friday, who's to say it's not 150 by Sunday or all 875? Again, how am I suppose to know what the end-game is? I don't have a right to protect myself by any means? > > Are you detractors the same type of people that tell a rape victim that they shouldn't have been walking in that neighborhood or wearing that skirt, etc... as though it's their fault? > > "I completely understand Brians position", No Doug, I'm afraid you don't. If you worked on something for 6+ years to watch it potentially vanish overnight (by illegal means), I think you'd have a better understanding. Rather than not knowing all the facts, and deciding to post your "be a man" thread. > > Ben and I have spoken privately, and the matter is settled and put to rest between us. > > As for my "little comments on his site demeaning Ben" webpage: I love your objectivity, you definitely understand my side of the situation Doug (tongue firmly placed in cheek). Also the page has been removed, but don't flatter yourself it had nothing to do with your post. I would have removed it after seeing Ben's post and conversing with him, however, I have a day job and did not have the ability to do so until I got home. > > And to those people that are sending me anonymous hate mail and posting negative comments attributing them to me on other CF sites, knock it off. Surely you must have something better to do. > > Sincerely, > Brian Simmons > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-OT/message.cfm/messageid:236 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-OT/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.29
