Echelon - 1.1

i red a lot of these posts about the dev and how dam'n trashed his app now is or should be, but i think that this hole thing got so big, he couldn't have been thinking of that, he just acted. he acted for good and understandable reasons - jeah an crossed a line. now the hole web community pull out their toungths to give him hell. ok, and now stop one moment and think a few seconds before acting nearly as stupid! in my opinion, he learned his lesson and now let him try to be better then this. every one schould give him a chance now to proof that this was a mistake - and i think of it like, a mistake of whitch evey one laughes about in 10-20 years. as i did somthing wrong in my youth, got couth by the police and was brought back home by 'em. i got hell from my parents and neighbours but i got a chance to proof that i had learned my lesson, the dev has his too. i think he is more sensible where the line is, than any other of you, now! give him a chance and get over this mistake - no one is this perfect to throw stones at him!

Sorry but erasing user data is not the way to handle pirated software. I don't care if it has been disabled, there is no action this guy could take that would make me want to even demo any software he could possibly come up with.

Do you know how much noise your little hissy fit has caused? Independent developers and open source products have been inching their way into mainstream society, becoming more and more trusted. Even casual computer users have begun realizing that their fellow man cares more about their productivity than huge faceless corporations. Small businesses and international conglomerates alike were beginning to adopt indie software solutions instead of costlier big brother products. Developers just like you were becoming the ever more appealing answer to keeping down the all mighty TCO.

And now you've ruined it for everybody.

Who can trust indie software now? Your selfishness will send shockwaves through the entire planet and will delay the technological revolution.

I hope that for every file you are responsible for deleting, you have one day of unemployment. You can be sure that your fellow developers will be experiencing the very same woes.

how is one supposed to believe all the glowing feedbacks if about all the five star reviews come from the developer(s) themselves?? Just take a quick look at the feedback histories of "Wise_Weasel (WiseWeasel's Crackden)", "MacTheRipper (GeezerButtz Software)", "lemon2k" - all of them say sooner or later in either their "reviews" or commentaries that they are part of this operation...

Doesn't convince me and makes for a very bad reputation...

(I won't even try to balance the user rating by giving a low rating, I would have to post way too many reviews for that...)

"This boneheaded move completely backfired on him, but it's no reason to toss this app in the trash"

I strongly disagree. Anyone asinine enough to even try something like this will have NO chance in hell of EVER getting me to even think about using one of his apps. Not only that, but I will make sure to blast this guy everytime I hear someone asking me about software in this genre. Utterly reprehensible.