This Blog Dedicated to Mr. Bob!!!
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006Mr. Bob, the friend of Mr. Clenard, whom he consulted and pleaded that I called him a thief said:
Hello Clint,
My good friend Mike Sigers forwarded this to me today. Truth is always a defense to libel. Now, him calling you a thief is is different and actionable because he is imputing criminal behavior to you. You can call someone a moron but calling someone a thief is a no-no.
Hope that helps.
Bob ****** (name edited for reasons of Spam)
Mr. Bob, I truly respect your reply to the person named above and it is totally accurate. But the fact is he did not provide you with full story and let me guess what he wrote to you:
“Mr. Bob, I have a fight with this person, who called me a thief on a popular forum, and then I went on said he was a disgusting person and a moron, can I be sued.”
Now, The fact is, even till today, I have not written anywhere that person named above is a thief. All I said was that the person named above has not purchased our software, so if he is using it, he is using a pirated copy. Now how did I come to this conclusion, here are the points:
1) I have no one in my customer base with the name “Clint Lenard”.
2) He argued on another popular forum that he purchased the competitors product, over mine.
3) On his blog or on his signatures or anywhere he has not mentioned the name of the website using the product.
4) I on the forum this all started, said “Mr. Clenard, I have no intention of fighting with you, if you have in realty purchased the software, please send me your username on our site and your domain, and I will write a public appology for saying that you are using a pirated copy.”
5) Until today almost 55 days have past, not even his partner, nor him has given me the name of the website, or username they purchased the product from.
From the points above it is amply clear that he is not my customer. Even if he is, I have the rights to know under whose name he purchased it, so tomorrow I can deny a sale for another of my softwares to the same person. If saying or asking if you are using a pirated script means that I called him a thief then what exactly does this statement made by the person above mean “You think I didn’t purchase your script? That’s fine - I’m surely not going to give you the information it was purchased with because the way you act - I wouldn’t trust you to do something to make info disappear.” In this post of his, then, Mr. Bob he is calling me a thief, that I will steal his money and cancel his so called license. And what does “Right now you’re coming off as some kind of net thug trying to push around your Clients and calling them liars in public, threatening to post Private Emails on open forums, etc. Is this what Vastal does to all of their clients?”, this post mean? Net Thug? What is Thug? It is a word equivalent to theif. Thanks Clenard for asking Mr. Bob something, you instead made my case more strong, because I did not at ay stage say you are a theif, but in fact you did, lol, what a turn of events.
So Mr. Bob, I will ask you to go through all the stuff he has posted and all the stuff I posted and then make a judgement and tell him what to do, because the truth is my lawyer has read all that I posted and all that he posted. Under Indian I.T. Act He is entitled to a term of 5 years and a fine of USD $5000 just for saying my software sucked and had no comparison with the competiton. Under Defamation case, which I have full rights to file, i might even be awarded USD $200,000 which if he does not have, his property will be seized and paid to me. I will ask him to give Mr. Bob full description of the events and send Mr. Bob full conversations on what happened and who wrote what?
So Mr. Funny Man, go ahead sue me, I am waiting. My process has started, so I guess we will meet soon.
Thanks to everyone who sent him an email stating “Please stop harassing Buddy Zone and Vastal I-Tech” I really appreciate it. Please continue.