I didn't want to work with you in the first place. I never asked you to
approach me. Your CTO approached me out of the blue and told me what
ThinkPenguin planned to do, and asked me to help ThinkPenguin.
When you publicly criticize my company for what it does, and then try to do
the very same thing in the exact same way that you criticized, that makes me
think you are not genuine, and it makes me want to not only not work with
you, but actually hold things back from you, which is what I did.
I otherwise work with many people, regularly.
Yeah, $500? What a joke. You wanted to put my company out of business, and
expected me to accept it. Fuck you.
You can't trust me? Of course, ThinkPenguin can't trust me to do things that
are against my interest. That much should be obvious. Asking anyone to do
something that is against their interest is almost guaranteed to get a very
predictable response.
And I don't think that everyone is out to get me. Now you're putting words in
my mouth. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt, until they prove to me
that they are treacherous, as your company did.
