A Public Note to Mark Wieder and the Rev list:

[Josh Mellicker]

First off I'd like to apologize to the list since this matter should  
have been handled privately. However, due to the permanent and  
irreversible repercussions of the original post I am forced to respond.

In 30 years as an entrepreneur, most recently 8 years as President of  
DVcreators.net, I am proud to have upheld an impeccable standard of  
personal and business ethics. My company, DVcreators.net, is an  
industry leader, trusted by the world's most prestigious clients,  
including Apple, Canon, Intel, HP and countless others, and over  
100,000 loyal customers due to our deserved reputation not only for  
the quality of our work but for the way we conduct business.

Your post seems to insinuate:

A. we hired a competent programmer to do a job
B. he did a good job
C. we did not pay the bill

All ethics aside, we did not attain our current level of success by  
randomly choosing not to pay for professional work received. We have  
many projects we need to get finished, and competent Revolution  
programming is a key need of our company.

A much more likely scenario (and the truth) is:

A. client hires a programmer to do a job
B. programmer never delivers any code that works
C. after disappearing for months, the client reverts back to a  
previous version of the stack, due to extensive damage done to the  
project
D. programmer suddenly emails two months later, demanding payment
E. after being given another chance to fix problems (despite the poor  
quality of previous code), programmer does not respond
F. two months later, posts a malicious, defamatory attack on the  
client on a public listserve

But here is the bigger problem:

If you do a google search for "josh mellicker" there are about 2,000  
results. Most informational, some glowing and complimentary.

Currently, your defamatory post (on mail-archive) ranks #3:
http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@lists.runrev.com/ 
msg89310.html

Right now, or for the forseeable future, ANYONE doing research on my  
company or myself, for example, venture capitalists who are  
considering our company for possible investment, Fortune 500 clients  
who are currently considering long term, high dollar contracts with  
us, including one of the largest publishers in the world, potential  
partners and employees, not to mention programmers, would probably  
run across it. The damages of your post to our company could  
potentially be in the hundreds of thousands.

As long as mail-archive, Nabble, Gmane and others archive list posts  
(probably decades, if not forever) your libelous attack will be  
available to any web searcher.

If you (or anyone) are thinking, "why didn't you just pay the bill,  
even though you got nothing of any value, and avoid all this"? you  
might consider a remedial business ethics course. Why should someone  
who merely makes the mistake of hiring the wrong party be forced to  
choose between extortion and libel?

Mark, I asked you in an email to consider posting an apology/ 
retraction (to no response). In the future, before posting a  
defamatory attack on someone else, you might consider contacting them  
first to resolve your differences. And before choosing to leave a  
permanent, easily searchable and malicious statement against them  
that is echoed to several public, web-searchable places, consider  
that you are committing a serious criminal offense.


Sincerely,

Josh Mellicker
President/CEO
DVcreators.net


On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:

>
> I was hoping to make the trip down south, but sadly I'll have to pass
> on another SoCal gathering.
>
> Given my recent experience, though, and on the theme of collaboration,
> I have to caution anyone against doing business with Josh Mellicker or
> dvcreators.net, especially in light of Josh's offer to get involved
> with planning a revcon. If someone is seriously thinking about doing
> work with them, my advice would be to get the money up front and make
> sure there aren't any contract loopholes he can try to weasel out of.
> But my main advice would be not to go down that road at all.
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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