For the record, Jonathan and I put in many long hours getting his ATM machine working, often staying very
late nights at his place toiling away. Not only that - Jonathan found him a video production crew to document
his company and also found him a booth at a show after Todd soured his relationship with Play N Trade who
had offered him a retail location in which to debut his ATM.
We had an agreement...he was going to pay us cash for our work and he would get to keep the source code.
Well, he didn't come through on his side - we successfully got his machine working and got him a forum in which
to present it and promote it but he failed to pay us what he owed us. Not only that, the whole time we were there
he was secretly recording us and videotaping us...and acting generally paranoid...and seemed to have a rather
unstable personality.
Todd got upset at Jonathan because Jonathan had the nerve to tell Todd to his face how he felt about his creepy
ways...and I believe both of us had reason to be upset for the fact that he had failed to come through on his
side of the arrangement and trying to claim that he would pay less than he had originally said...and even admitted
that he knew it was more than he was saying it was.
So we both walked out of his garage. He still kept every single line of source code,
but despite his obsession for adding all sorts of superficial features, he didn't seem to want to give much priority
to ensuring the basic functionality was stable...nor to really understand how to even do as much as start the app.
If he wasn't able to figure out how to get the app running once we left it was only because he never even bothered
to ask us how to configure it and set it up.
Seeing that it was highly unlikely he would ever pay the full amount he owed us, I later even offered him that I'd
show him everything he needed to get it working again for less than half of what he owed...and that we'd consider
it a done deal. Well...he flaked, claiming that he was going to have some russian relatives redo the software instead.
Jonathan and I were nothing but nice to Todd until it became apparent that he was someone with which it was impossible
to do business. I regret that it had to end like that, but that's the story.
Just wanted to set the record straight.