[sdiy] Monowave goes GPL

[phil macnutt]

 how about a little humor to freshen the evening?
I collect quotes from whereever, and found this one i saved from the diy list way back in maybe 1998.

> I'd be careful asking about valves on synth-diy.
> The list is monitored by antipodean transistor worshippers who willbombard
> you with mis-information and lies.
>..such as Paul Perry, known as "Morgoth," Destroyer of Light,Descecrator of
>Vacuum Tubes, Practitioner of the Odious Worship of Silicon. Do not believePaul
>Perry's web of lies; for he misrepresents the Truth, in a foul attempt to
>subvert the One. Ia! Ia! Yog-Sothoth! The many headed goat with the thousand
>eyes... 

I have no idea of the history of that thread, but i loved that post!

phil


p.s. can someone talk tony allgood into making boards again?



On Thursday, August 25, 2005, at 07:59PM, Jeff Farr <moogah at gmail.com> wrote:

>Yes, Tony, please de-rail this freight train and post a detailed
>message about what your working on/hope to be working on.  I'll gladly
>join that discussion.  Better yet if you hi-jack this thread.
>
>On 8/25/05, R. Drake <rdrake at data2action.com> wrote:
>> Tony,
>> 
>> bad luck, or bad timing... this kind of thing is extremely unusual on this
>> list--check the archives.  with very occasional exceptions, the folks here
>> are among the most knowledgeable, generous, and well behaved online groups
>> i've ever been a part of.  give this fluke a couple days to die off, and in
>> the meanwhile hit delete liberally.
>> 
>> what kinds of projects are you working on, or considering?
>> 
>> best,
>> bbob drake
>> 
>> 
>> on 8/25/05 10:22 PM, Tony Scharf at tony at mtx-media.com wrote:
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>> >
>> >
>> > you know....I just joined this list, and this thread has totaly soured
>> > me against this community.   Seems like its nothing but a bunch of
>> > circuit geeks trying to say "its my soldering iron and you cant have it".
>> >
>> > Give it rest, please.  I personaly am hear to learn about Synth DIY and
>> > not about how cool xyz is because he knows how rip of abc's filter
>> > design, and how qwerty should change his filter circuit because its my
>> > circuit and he cant have it.  Its all starting to sound like some kind
>> > of childish pissing contest, and I can read the MPC list archives if I
>> > want to read that...
>> >
>> > Tony
>> >
>> 
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