Break Time Away From This Business.

Posted on March 29, 2010
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Why is your site partly offline?

Its offline because I’m simply taking a break away from this business to work with a social media company not affiliated with real estate or real estate scripting.  By taking a break away from all the very strange and bizarre attacks from members of the OR forums I’m able to reduce my stress level by not partaking in their antics.

More than a year ago I was bitten by a nasty spider that caused some very serious infection issues and the break will allow me to recover faster as well.  I do still map out and build MLS integrated solutions using either RETS or IDX applications. I’m just not active in the freelance side of the business as it relates to doing design work at this time.

Now a few people have made comments about this little assault by the OR crew as a few months back I had to deal with reckless accusations about some of the products we publish. Any and all products we design specifically for use with Open-Realty® were pretty much put under attack. The reasons are still rather bizarre and not fully clear to me but what many tend to agree with is that jealousy is a painful emotion not easily overcome by those who are truly insecure. The assault, threat to sue (which I still laugh my ass off about) and the attempt to hijack all my code just burned me out and opened my eyes to some of  “People” in this industry.

Had we developed a half dozen tools specifically for use with WordPress, Drupal, Joomla or any other open source application we would likely have received some level of praise and appreciation by the community. However, with the Open-Realty® team this has proven not to be true as it does appear they do not share the spirit or ideology of the open source community.  Giving credit where credit is due is not really appear to be a concept they are willing to embrace.  In my eyes and from my perspective you don’t open up an application for contribution, ideas and member oriented support only to spit in their face because you fail to monetize it properly. So I decided to just quit for a while and regain perspective.

More on the big motivating factor.

It is interesting to note that the individual whom started these events a few months back is proving our point rather boldly.  Chad, the owner of WPRealty, had refunded a person their money after he realized it wasn’t just impossible to help this person, it was counter productive since the guy had literally zero experience in web development or management.  For that reason I wasn’t really surprised to read the frustrations from Ryan (aka the_sandking)  regarding this individual.  To me, its 100% clear when you have to respond to this loose cannon in a public forum whereby threatening to ban him if he didn’t listen to direction affirms our position for sending him packing.  Now maybe the OR team gets the point.  After all, this is the same crap we had to deal with before calling no joy and refunding the guys $30 which netted us brutal or should I say LIBEL abuse at the hands of the Open-Realty® forum administrators.

I’m keeping my blog until I figure out what to do with it and in the mean time removing all reference to Open-Realty® in terms that would even casually lead someone to believe that any post made is defamatory in nature.

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