Robert L. Bass tries to screw Dave Houston

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Robert L. Bass tries to screw Dave Houston



Subject: re Bass
From: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx  (Dave Houston)
Date: 7/3/2004 8:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <40e83121.11319269@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm sure this will do little good but when such an abominable lie is
repeatedly spread by such an abominable liar as Bass, I think it requires a
response. He knows I keep him in my killfile so I guess he figures he can
take these shots with impunity.

When he posts, "Not too long ago when he was begging for help I tried
to put aside our differences; privately offered to assist him and got
publicly slammed for it." he is lying! Anybody who wishes can check Google
for this group back in May/June of 2003 just after I got out of the
hospital. You will find no post from me asking for help. You will certainly
find no post from me "begging" for help. But being the bottom feeding
dishonest bit of sub-human slime he is, Bass has repeated this lie several
times.

I turned down offers from a few people who offered help when I said that I
would probably have to move and stop posting here. I have since managed to
get into the VA healthcare system which gets me my cardiac medications at $7
per prescription per month - a savings of a few hundred dollars each month.
That has allowed me to stay in the apartment I've been in for the past 7-8
years.

I did ask if anyone with the appropriate skills was interested in taking
over an application I wrote several years ago that gave those without the
ability to speak (from brain injury, ALS, CP, stroke, etc.) a way to control
their environment and use text-to-speech to "speak", even originating and
answering phone calls. I offered the sourcecode for free. Bass, being the
slime-ball, con-artist, hypocrite he is, sent an e-mail trying to wheedle me
into giving him the sourcecode. I guess he thought he could then sell it to
someone else - he certainly has demonstrated no programming skills nor even
a beginners understanding of computer related security issues although he
ridiculed my warnings about active scripting. (CERT and other computer
security experts this week recommended abandoning IE because of severe
security holes related to active scripting.) If Bass would like to settle
this in an appropriate venue, I can prove eveything I've said and disprove
everything he has said. Bass would be the last person on earth that I would
consider to take over the sourcecode.

I _gave_ that sourcecode to someone else who did have world-class
programming skills. I'm not sure if he did anything with it. I wrote it back
before the government would subsidize similar software so he may have
decided there was no longer a market. Or he may have been unimpressed with
it.

My diagnosis was severe congestive heart failure. My cardiologist has
steadily increased my dosage of the two main medications and I'm functioning
nearly as well, although with decreased mobility, as before. I'm trying to
finish off several DIY HA related projects in whatever time I have
remaining. Many are nearing completion.

The X-10 RF input module for the Ocelot/Leopard will probably be of interest
to the greatest number but I'm also working on porting Commander-X to an
embedded, networkable, under $100 system.


Continued ::::::::

Subject: Re: re Bass
From: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx  (Dave Houston)
Date: 7/6/2004 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <40ecc4ac.154854418@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

When Bass sees his lies refuted, he responds with another.

>> Mr. Houston placed a page on his website and many from this newsgroup saw
>> it.  In that page he stated that due to his declining health and
>> financial
>> issues related to his health he would not be able to continue his work.
>> He
>> asked if anyone wanted to maintain a site and offered to provide his code
>> for that purpose.

There was NEVER any such page on my website.

There was a notice that due to my health I could no longer maintain the site
nor respond to emails it generated.

There was a link to a page which gave a brief detail of my health problems
and which offered to give the sourcecode for SpeakOUT! (the text-to-speech
application program for the disabled) to any qualified person who would
update it and make it available (whether for free or as a commercial app)
for those who could use it. The person I really wanted to take it over was
an Air Force pilot who expressed strong interest but then got transferred
and found himself with little free time to devote to it.

There was no plea for assistance. There was no request that anybody provide
web space for ANY purpose. The page was already hosted on donated server
space that did not cost me one cent so there was no reason to request that
someone maintain a site.

When the emails actually increased, I shut the web page down.

When an individual with suspect motives posted a message here that it was
still available in the WayBack archives, there was another spurt of email so
I had it removed from the archive. (They understand copyright law.)

The page was hosted by a company that has an international IT business. They
have servers in Europe, North America and Asia. All mirrored my pages; all
were archived religiously on a daily basis.

There were dozens of people who emailed me offering free server space. Most
said they had made personal archives of the pages and would publish them
with no work on my part. Since that defeated the purpose of shutting down
the pages, I declined all such offers telling them I would edit the pages
and republish them at a later date. So, there are many, many archives of the
pages held by independent parties which will prove that Bass is once again
resorting to slander and libel.

To those complaining about my posts, I can only say that I did not initiate
this exchange but I am not going to allow anybody to slander and libel me
without responding. If you do not like that, use your killfile. If you do
not want to use your killfile but still wish to complain, I can only suggest
you follow the advice the Vice President gave to Sen. Leahy. ALL of those
complaining made my killfile long, long ago.

Bass is a thoroughly dishonest slime artist who, lacking in technical
ability, resorts to personal slander and libel when someone posts technical
data that he cannot refute.

His "FAQ" linked to each of my web pages (without permission) for several
years. Most of his "FAQ" is composed of work done by others and used without
permission.

It amazes me that nobody has turned Bass into gator kibble.





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