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This is what bothered me about the whole post. He never once said how old the other company is. A critical (purposeful?) omission.

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He also didn't mention that he tried to sell his app to them 2 years ago. Or that they made him an extremely generous offer this year.

I never tried to sell them the application. I offered to build a Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 application for free. Also, their offer doesn't seem very generous when you consider the extreme likelihood that if they obtained my application, it would never be integrated with their network. Since their offer was a 33% revenue share of that application's revenue, I would never see a dime. Building this was never really only about money anyways. WhosHere has no concept of community within their app. I didn't set out to build an app or a company, I wanted to build a community.

Brian, the only damage control you should be doing now is apologizing profusely to everyone for trying to manipulate this community. You spun a very sad story and left out incredibly crucial facts that did not serve you. That is simply unacceptable. This is clearly the act of a very immature person who is not ready for the world of business.

Your post is now clearly shameful; the fact that you went even further and began accepting donation money only escalates that shamefulness. Did you really think that the details you left out wouldn't come to light?

You've handled this very poorly. Apologize to the community, apologize to WhosHere before you get smacked with a defamation suit, and hire a damned lawyer to deal with your legitimate trademark and breach of contract lawsuit in a court of law instead of wasting time dancing around in the court of public opinion.

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