Mosfet.org: Future Technology tries to shut down mosfet.org and the Liquid style for KDE

“After a couple months, I understandably removed Future
Technologies’ name from my software such as Liquid. They never paid
for it. I placed a note on the Changelog stating that their name
was removed because they never paid my paychecks. All true stuff.
Since then Dr. Giovanni has been sending me nasty emails, even
going so far as threatening me with hell (“Now all the KDE people
and the world knows that I don’t pay you. I will pray that god give
you want you deserve.”) 😉 Sorry, but this is what you get when
you screw over people who are supposed to be working for you, don’t
pay them their paychecks, then lead them on for months. What people
like this don’t realize is that their employees depend on them to
pay their rent, bills, and do silly things like buy food. You can’t
continually promise to pay their salary for months, knowing that
you can’t, and expect goodwill from them.

That brings us to the present. I so far have refused to remove
the comment on the Liquid style’s changelog because it is
completely true and is totally legal and legitimate for me to make
such comments. Nonetheless since they don’t want people to know
they cannot meet their obligations to pay their employees, they are
trying to shut down mosfet.org.

As of Sunday, 10/28/2001, Dr. Giovanni of Future Technologies
has requested that the web host for mosfet.org shut down my site or
he will contact lawyers in the US on Monday. Thankfully, these
threats are groundless and the host for mosfet.org has refused so
far. I originally put up a copy of the email from Future
Technologies here, but it has been recommended that I take it down
for the time being. I would like to thank my website hosts for
their understanding.”

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