I am a pretty forgiving person and I tend to forget things after a while. I
truly had forgotten about this. It wasn't too far under conscious
recollection but I had almost entirely forgotten...

Thanks for your thoughts and concerns.

Regards,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Gütter" <cguetter@...>
To: "'Jason Wharton '" <jwharton@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 4:13 PM
Subject: AW: [IBO] Promoting IBO (was: Re: IBO advantages over IBX)


> Hi Jason,
>
> just to remember what we were talking about:
>
> >> I have read so many e-mails from you and I was really surprised
> >> about your aggressive tone - you seemed to be a more calm person.
> >> Thinking about this, it came to my mind that there was once a
> >> discussion
> >> about the fact (?) that the programmer of IBX (not Jeff) has taken some
> >> code from IBO and used it for IBX.
>
> > I am not aware of such accusations. I really doubt they would do that.
>
> Normally, I have got a very good memory and I was quite surprised about
> your answer.
> So I took a look at my e-mail archive and I found out the mail I
> had in my mind.
>
> Perhaps you didn't want this to be discussed openly, so I am writing
> a personal mail.
>
> They are only class definitions, but they were stolen.
> They were owned by you, you created them.
> So I am really curious why you "forgot" about this.
>
> I don't want this to be like an interview at a police station -
> you don't need to answer if you don't want to.
>
> But I always had the impression of you that you are a person who
> discussed things openly and in an open-minded way - and you are
> not a Canadian - so I think my question is not inappropriate or
> insulting for you.
> I have always agreed with most of your thoughts, plans, etc. because
> they seemed to be sensible and right.
> But your answer really confused me.
> Attached you find a part of the old mail I found in my archive.
>
>
> With regards,
>
> Christian
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Oh, yes...
>
> But I'm still unsettled about how Ravi stole my class names for IBX even
> though I gave him plenty of warning ahead of time that he was treading
into
> my established classes in IBO. I even had them registered in the Delphi
> Prefix Registry. I wouldn't have minded so much if he seemed to care more
> but I didn't get the impression that he did, nor did InterBase seem to
> really care either. I think they just expected me to throw in the towel
and
> move on in life.
>
> In fact, just yesterday I had to port yet another app I haven't touched in
a
> while from the old class names that IBX stole to the new ones. It was just
a
> few more dashes of salt in an old wound... This class name hijack was a
> terrible inconvenience to my customers (in the hundreds) and I am very
> regretful that this happened to them.
>
> Here's another battle...
>
>
>
>