Not so Black and White, e.g. from the apneaboard forum he trashes:
>The pattern goes like this:
1. JediMark asks for feedback, development help etc.
2. Folks step up to the plate and help him out.
3. The code is improved and released.
4. Time passes, bugs are found, new machines need support, so those that help Mark out try to contact him to inform him of these needful things.
5. Mark goes "dark" and drops out of any online activity for MONTHS at a time.
6. The "helpers" get frustrated and keep trying to contact Mark for direction.
7. Their requests are ignored by Mark, repeatedly.
8. The "helpers" start talking about trying to help fix the code themselves, since users are clamoring for the fixes with JediMark nowhere to be found.
9. The "helpers" actually fix a bit of the code and offer it up to those who would like to use a "fixed" version, or install a patch.
10. Suddenly, JediMark comes out of hiding, and attacks the "helpers" for not allowing him time to fix the problems himself, saying (basically) that "No one understands the code like I do, since I am the creator of SleepyHead, and your efforts to 'fix' things only messes up my progress!!!" and "You guys are trying to steal SleepyHead away!"
11. The "helpers" are stunned by Mark's attacks and slink off away into oblivion, since they're offended that Mark thinks they are a bunch of "rebels".
12. More months pass with nothing being done.
13. GOTO step 4 (1)
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>I was your friend, for several years, until you decided that I was your enemy because I suggested you talk to Pugsy about things that confused new users. Things that confused them then, and things that continue to confuse them now.
At that point, you decided I was out to get you" and trying to destroy sleepyhead.
You've done the same with Arie, who's been helping you for far longer than I had, and now you've decided that Apneaboard is against you.
The fact that people don't agree* with everything you might think DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE AGAINST YOU!.
Your real friends aren't the sycophants that do nothing but shower you with praise.
Your real friends are the ones that actually give enough of a shit to tell you "hey, dude, you've got a problem.", or in the case of Sleepyhead "hey, what you're doing is hurting the program, and everybody that uses it.
Go ahead and let someone else work on 1.1, if you don't like it, FINE, just ignore them.
There's no reason for you to go off the deep end, making posts about how everybody is out to get you.
BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT out to get you[/u][/i][/b], or, destroy sleepyhead.
For Gods sake, you and I worked for hundreds of hours, you told me endless stories about your childhood and growing up and sent me pictures of your first Christmas tree, and you wearing the T-shirt I had custom made for you.... but when I suggested you talk to Pugsy about what confuses people... you were in one of your paranoid phases, and suddenly, I was THE ENEMY.
The same thing is happening now.
If I didn't care, about you... I'd just laugh and say "he's off his rocker again..." I'd really rather you get help though, so you can be a happier person.(2)
(1) Apneaboard.com/forums/Thread-SleepyHead-version-1-1-Release-plus-odd-posts-by-JediMark?pid=284578#pid284578
(2) http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t174687/SleepyHead-Project...