Ok, here I am.

Beat the hell outta me.

As you do, some comments:

1 - I did consider that Anton believed what he claimed. In point of fact, when I looked at the meshes, I went above and beyond what he provided, and I looked hard.  Becuase it was anton, and while I might not be the greatest fan of his historic behavior, I am a huge fan of his work. The two concepts are disassociated, however, for me. I believed there were going to be issues. I expected them.  I hunted for them. Hard.  And I did not find them.

2 - Anton did more deleting of posts in that hell thread than the mods here did.

3 - Anton's historic behavior, if you are not familiar with it, is the reason these suppostions were made.  The same way that people will, forever, assume that I exist solely to torment others in times of pain. I don't make them lightly, nor without consideration and examination of details from many sources.

4 - I am not the reason Apollo is not available anymore.  I do not have any influence over the conduct or decisions of the administration of this site. My editorializing of the situation was only as influential as it was taken by those that read it. I think apollo is a great figure, and said so several times. And I believe support for him should continue, regardless of availability.

5 - Note carefully that Anton did not apparently single me out in his message. Also, note that the message as posted above was not the original one posted on his site:

"Today Renderosity recinded all recent and previous offers for me to have a store here. Apollo will be retired and I am leaving the community. New info is at my site. I leave angered and resentfrul at merchants like ernyoka, members like Acadia, and store people like JenyK To railroad and troll and to ignore it and pretend it isn't happening is despicable. So the combined Poser stores, witho their secrets and intigues have managed to squeeze me out. COngratulations but at least they had to band together, if even in secret and over years to do it. "TOS" means "To obey silently" I leave with my honesty, my convinctions and zero respect for a level of commnity wide corruption I happily leave behind. To my supports I thank them and wish you well in life. To those that sat silent over years and sites, I abhore you. To the mentally ill that now run our forums, well you wou;dn't understand anyway. Goodbye, Anton PS: DOn't bother sending me IM's and email now with silent support. I am sorry but the anger I have over such lack of honesty is not capable of ebing expressed."

6 - Anton does not need to apologize. It would be nice if he did, but that's not a need.

And, Lastly, if Anton really does believe all of this, he will do what he should have done in the first place: file claim. ANd I don't mean with Rosity, I mean in a court of law. It is not as expensive as some think, and those costs can be recouped from the loser. 

THese types of "events" should never be played out in the forums.  Ever. For any reason.  Complaints should be brought to the stores in private, should be investigated, the stores should be allowed to decide, and then, after all of that is done, a posting should be made stating facts as simply and as directly as the statement made in this case, and locked. People do deserve to know when there is an infringement. They do not need to have the opportunity to create a 750+ post thread about it.

beat away.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)