[Zev]

I have a some good friends who work at Black Pixel and had the fortune of meeting Daniel Pasco (and others on the Black Pixel team) a few days ago, just after MacWorld. They're all class acts and damned good at what they do. I wouldn't hesitate to work with or refer someone to them, period. I don't know anyone who wouldn't. Aside from Casasanta, apparently.

I don't know the full story. I don't know what Casasanta is hoping to achieve by posting this. But, I do know other stories from people who do contracting that have been left hanging by him or have refused to work with him due to insane deadlines. And thats enough for me to think that this is a load of bullshit on Casasanta's part to try and make himself look good for whatever reason.

[tzs]

I think quitting a job by tweeting that the company is trying to extort you into indentured servitude precludes being a "class act".

> I don't know the full story. I don't know what Casasanta is hoping to achieve by posting this.

Well, he was publicly accused of trying to extort someone. Doesn't that merit a public response?

[Zev]

Casasanta has a history of this sort of thing: http://kingscourt.posterous.com/more-from-john-casasanta-mac... is another example.

And to me, it sounds like the only reason this isn't extortion is because Dan didn't go along with Casasanta's plan.

[gte910h]

Depends on what the threat is in this alleged extortion. You might want to get out ahead of something like that.

Not sure twitter is the best medium for that, but hey, it's what happened..

The more I read everything, the more it looks like Casasanta was likely threatening to write a bad blog entry about this if the developer didn't work more for him doing something. I don't know the facts here, but it feels like there was a mismatch of expectations here somewhere. Not sure if it was an intentional deception or a X didn't think the same thing as Y or what. Perhaps Casasanta is due more than he got, perhaps not. That's a niggling factual issue we are unlikely to ever know without more information.

I DO know I wouldn't touch this code with a 10km stick. Who know who really owns copyright on all this after this sort of blowup. It's a good way to end up in court if nothing else.

[tzs]

> Not sure twitter is the best medium for that, but hey, it's what happened..

I'd say that if you've got 1.3k followers, and the company you are slamming has 100k followers, Twitter is definitely not the best medium to take your fight public in.

[gte910h]

Depends on what the point is. If the point is to get proof out before the article that you've been threatened, well, its likely better than nothing. Press release would probably be better.

[aaronbrethorst]

+1 — Dan Pasco's a great guy.