> You went to press in October. I told you to remove it in July. The
> contracts say I can ask to remove it "provided 30 days prior notice is
> offered". You agreed to that so don't whine now.
1. I went to press in September *and* the CD requires at *least* a months
preparation - the CD was being prepared before the WOA show, in July!
2. The CD was advertised, as you'll remember, at least 4-5 months before the
release, and also offered to NC2 users buying NC2 within the summer period,
as a free upgrade to NC v3.
3. You had, as I stated, to supply written notice to cancel a contract,
based in the same format as the contract was provided, it states this within
the contract - *written* statement. You supplied your written statement,
which was just a printout of the email, in September, almost when I was
going to press - again, I also had 30 days, at least in theory, to withdraw,
but at this time, as appp.device was integral to the package *and* there was
no clear reason to withdraw *and* I'd advertised and offered it to NC2
users, WTF did you expect me to do?
> The reason I do not want to work with you is mainly your lack of
> professionalism.
As I've said before: 'professionalism' and 'Amiga market' do not necessarily
go hand in hand. Why not? Mainly as I was the *only* person at Active,
trying to support software sold to 100's of people, I couldn't afford to
take anyone else on! Due the sheer amount of work involved with running,
managing and supporting the company yes, I'd admit, a lack of
'professionalism' was prevalent during periods of running the company.
An example: the three to four weeks before the July 1999 WOA show was a
severely hectic period for me, as I had to prepare for the show (looking
back in hindsight, I probably prepared *too* much, sigh). In these three
weeks you emailed me twice with 'why aren't you answering me??' kind of
emails - which I didn't even read until after WOA! Worse, I get back from
WOA to find a third email, once I've finally sorted everything out, simply
saying 'I do not want to work with you anymore'. Lack of professionalism?
Well, I could say the same to you - you had one task, to produce appp.device
- whereas I had a magnitude of tasks to upheld, hundreds of customers to
support (not always well, but I did my best), numerous programmers to keep
happy and a major show to prepare for.
> And although you claim the device has bugs you seem to be very eager to use
> it.
It has a bug, quite a major bug that rebooted Amiga's when dialing up to BT
Internet, Abel Internet and at least two other 'major' UK ISP's - this
caused untold amounts of support, which I could have charged you for - this
appp.device was also supplied, of course, with/to NC2 users.
>> You were asking Haage for 5000DM or so DM for 6 months, then another 5000DM
>> for another 6 months. So, you wanted, in effect, around �2000 for the 6
>> months after the end of July.
>
> Hell, what is all this. Stop spreading all those wrong numbers. 5000 for
> another 6 months is just crap.
Thomas, I have personal experience of your demands - again, I believe Haage
more than I believe you, so I do not believe the figures are 'crap'. Hell,
it's already proved that you told Haage that we owed '1500 sales + 50%', so
why would they then make up that you asked for 5000DM for the first 6
months, 5000DM thereafter?
>> You make the entire situation seem very one-sided, but, believe me, asking
>> for these kind of figures, for a small part of a TCP/IP stack (in most
>> people's eyes), when you don't make any money from it, apart from these
>> licenses, is ridiculous.
>
> A small part? Big enought for you to *steal*
With the ironic situation being that the appp.device was the same device
supplied with NC2....and as 95% of NC3's were sold to NC2 users, I could
have even left of appp.device entirely - saving me all this hassle with you
and not having to pay you a dime.
Chris.
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Chris Wiles
Active Technologies - http://www.active-net.co.uk
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