No, in fact I don't think I'll be letting this slide

But we need guys like Andy, crazy as they are, because well, they make the world a lot more fun than it otherwise would be. I'd be very sad about a Mac OS X world without Andy Stone.

That's not the crazy I mean with Rixstep. Whoever the fuck runs that festering pool of shit is a decidedly different kind of crazy. The kind that decides that if you are not one of their sycophants, that you're unworthy of even basic human dignity. Disagree with them, for any reason, and they will attack you in the most immature, vicious, spiteful way possible. They claim to be long-time programmers and consultants, with a long list of impressive-sounding names to drop, but in reality, they're the idiot savants that prove every bad stereotype of computer programmers to be based in fact. They are an eternal Roy Stalin, forever screaming in anger at his defeat on the K-12 by Lane Meyer, and normally, I use them for my weekly moment of WHATTHEFUCK, but deliberately leave them alone. Because it's like fucking with a rabid chihuahua. The entertainment value isn't high enough to justify the annoyance factor.

Tonight ain't normal.

Rixstep, as part of their Joe and Wendy Whiner-ian jihad against Apple for not making Mac OS X a "pure" port of OpenSTEP, decided to poach a few years worth of Stepwise.com WWDC reviews, to show how Apple pulled a cross-platform bait and switch on us. Normally I wouldn't care what a bunch of Exceptionally Small-Penised, (ESP'd) nutters do. But, this has really upset Scott Anguish, who has run Stepwise for 13 years, and worked hard to make it a site that helps a lot of people learn to become better programmers. Scott talks about it, http://www.stepwise.com/

The deformed dldos running Rixstep stole a bunch of Scott's WWDC columns, and posted them in a way that would make it look like Scott agrees with Rixstep, and worse, actively supports their POV. This is most emphatically not true, and reading between the lines, I'll hazard that Scott's been on the receiving end of Rixstep's standard abuse for people who don't greet them on bended knee with open mouth. Judge for yourself:

Where is Stepwise??

Although it makes me sick to have to do so, I have temporarily pulled the main page of Stepwise off-line. The rest will likely go this weekend.

The "Rixstep" site has stolen a large chunk of my WWDC 1999 coverage and republished it without permission. I won't link to the article (I don't want to give him the spider traffic) but it is here http://rixstep.com/2/4/20071221,00.shtml.

Frankly, I can't take the stress of fighting this with "Rixstep", it makes me ill just thinking about it.

Let me just state...

I did not write this for him.

I did not write this for him to steal and misrepresent.

I do not agree that we were 'lead down the garden path', nor that there was a bait and switch.

My copyright has been violated by his reproduction. But given the track record, I see no way to stop him from doing this. He's published incorrect information about me before.

I only hope that the long-time readers of Stepwise will recognize that this is not my feelings on the matter, and that my co-workers also understand this.

Frankly, I don't know when, or if, I'll put Stepwise back online unless that content is removed from his site.

But what to do about it? Caling them names won't really work, and shit like hacking them is descending to their level. So what to do?

Expose Them

Go read Scott's take on it, then dead some of the crazy at Rixstep, including their ass-raping of Scott's good name at http : // rixstep.com / 2 / 4 / 20071221,00.shtml, and if you agree with me, call them out on your blog, site, lj, whatever. If you like, use my new Technorati tag with your post to make it easier for people to spot the kind of dicksnot they are.

Then shun them. Don't link to them, don't visit that site anymore, make them dead to you. Rixstep has the right to be a bunch of dogfuckers, but they can do so alone. Let them shit where they eat, and befoul whatever they touch, but let them do so in an oubliette. Shun Them.

Then send Scott an email so he knows he's appreciated.

Just in case Scott reads this:

Scott,

I may not have always agreed with you, and I know I probably went off on you at some point in the past, but I have always respected what you and Stepwise have tried to do, and largely succeeded at. You have a lot more people on your side than you think.

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While I am normally happy to poke fun at the crazy, the stupid, and the like, there is a level of crazy that even I have the sense to just leave alone, at least under normal circumstances. Like Rixstep, http://rixstep.com. That site is just a whole mess of crazy. Not the fun kind. I don't mean like the Andy Stone kinda crazy, which is the Nutty Professor kind. The kind that's a really nice guy, really smart, and working really hard to do good. It's just that you *really* want to know what his earth's gravitational constant is, because you have the feeling that it's just a wee bit different from ours \n\nBut we need guys like Andy, crazy as they are, because well, they make the world a lot more fun than it otherwise would be. I'd be very sad about a Mac OS X world without Andy Stone.\n\nThat's not the crazy I mean with Rixstep. Whoever the fuck runs that festering pool of shit is a decidedly different kind of crazy. The kind that decides that if you are not one of their sycophants, that you're unworthy of even basic human dignity. Disagree with them, for any reason, and they will attack you in the most immature, vicious, spiteful way possible. They claim to be long-time programmers and consultants, with a long list of impressive-sounding names to drop, but in reality, they're the idiot savants that prove every bad stereotype of computer programmers to be based in fact. They are an eternal Roy Stalin, forever screaming in anger at his defeat on the K-12 by Lane Meyer, and normally, I use them for my weekly moment of WHATTHEFUCK, but deliberately leave them alone. Because it's like fucking with a rabid chihuahua. The entertainment value isn't high enough to justify the annoyance factor.\n\nTonight ain't normal.\n\nRixstep, as part of their Joe and Wendy Whiner-ian jihad against Apple for not making Mac OS X a \"pure\" port of OpenSTEP, decided to poach a few years worth of Stepwise.com WWDC reviews, to show how Apple pulled a cross-platform bait and switch on us. Normally I wouldn't care what a bunch of Exceptionally Small-Penised, (ESP'd) nutters do. But, this has really upset Scott Anguish, who has run Stepwise for 13 years, and worked hard to make it a site that helps a lot of people learn to become better programmers. Scott talks about it, http://www.stepwise.com/ \n\nThe deformed dldos running Rixstep stole a bunch of Scott's WWDC columns, and posted them in a way that would make it look like Scott agrees with Rixstep, and worse, actively supports their POV. This is most emphatically not true, and reading between the lines, I'll hazard that Scott's been on the receiving end of Rixstep's standard abuse for people who don't greet them on bended knee with open mouth. Judge for yourself:

Where is Stepwise??\n\nAlthough it makes me sick to have to do so, I have temporarily pulled the main page of Stepwise off-line. The rest will likely go this weekend.\n\nThe \"Rixstep\" site has stolen a large chunk of my WWDC 1999 coverage and republished it without permission. I won't link to the article (I don't want to give him the spider traffic) but it is here http://rixstep.com/2/4/20071221,00.shtml.\n\nFrankly, I can't take the stress of fighting this with \"Rixstep\", it makes me ill just thinking about it.\n\nLet me just state...\n\nI did not write this for him.\n\nI did not write this for him to steal and misrepresent.\n\nI do not agree that we were 'lead down the garden path', nor that there was a bait and switch.\n\nMy copyright has been violated by his reproduction. But given the track record, I see no way to stop him from doing this. He's published incorrect information about me before.\n\nI only hope that the long-time readers of Stepwise will recognize that this is not my feelings on the matter, and that my co-workers also understand this.\n\nFrankly, I don't know when, or if, I'll put Stepwise back online unless that content is removed from his site.

Fuck you Rixstep. To every one of the diseased leaky douchebags running that site, Fuck you, and the cayuse you ride while dreaming of a human sex partner. Scott has, for over a decade, made Stepwise a site that did good, that helped people. All you have ever done is shit on everyone who didn't beg you for another helping of jizz. You're a fucking blight on the Mac web. Even the delusional ravings of Rob Enderle are preferable to the slime trail you leave in your wake.\n\nBut what to do about it? Caling them names won't really work, and shit like hacking them is descending to their level. So what to do?\n\nExpose Them\n\nGo read Scott's take on it, then dead some of the crazy at Rixstep, including their ass-raping of Scott's good name at http : // rixstep.com / 2 / 4 / 20071221,00.shtml, and if you agree with me, call them out on your blog, site, lj, whatever. If you like, use my new Technorati tag with your post to make it easier for people to spot the kind of dicksnot they are.\n\nThen shun them. Don't link to them, don't visit that site anymore, make them dead to you. Rixstep has the right to be a bunch of dogfuckers, but they can do so alone. Let them shit where they eat, and befoul whatever they touch, but let them do so in an oubliette. Shun Them. \n\nThen send Scott an email so he knows he's appreciated. \n\nJust in case Scott reads this:\n\nScott, \n\nI may not have always agreed with you, and I know I probably went off on you at some point in the past, but I have always respected what you and Stepwise have tried to do, and largely succeeded at. You have a lot more people on your side than you think.\n\n\n

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