FW: Attempted theft warning.

[John Esak]

I don't know *why* he asked me to post this for him... but Tim Barr is one
of the people I can count on one hand, that I would do anything for, at any
time, without question.  It is devastating to imagine his treasure trove of
proprietary intelectual property and information might be or has been
compromised.  I would hope that all filePro developers read this carefully.
It is the first time I'm hearing about it.
 
John Esak
 


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From: Tim Barr [mailto:tim.barr at 21appr.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 8:11 AM
To: john at valar.com
Cc: tim.barr at 21appr.com; glenn.freeman at 21appr.com;
jennifer.pisasik at 21appr.com; gene.porterfield at 21appr.com;
lee.machan at 21appr.com
Subject: Attempted theft warning.


John,
Would you please post the following to the filepro list?

Attention filepro developers. 
Toga County, Pennsylvania, our customer since 1995, has decided to switch
from us and filepro to a competitor. That is their right and we have offered
to extract their data from our complex system at a reasonable time and
materials rate.

They abandoned an in-house reassessment in 2008 (that we provided support
to) and used us for unjustified political cover. Now they desire to sever
the relationship.

Unfortunately they have chosen to break our license and copyright agreements
and search for a third party filepro developer to assist them in delivering
our entire software design and proprietary data to our competitor. 

They are apparently hoping to avoid having to pay over $40,000 in
contractual, overdue license and support payments.

We will be taking serious action against the county and anyone assisting in
this clear theft of our intellectual property. With a complete clone of our
data design and system (even if excluding processing tables), this new
out-of-state competitor can build on what we have spent over 25 years
customizing. Obviously the damage to us would be substantial.

Feel free to email or call me for further information or to alert us of
contact from Tioga.

Tim Barr, CTO
21st Century Appraisals, Inc
tim.barr at 21appr.com
717-985-0200 ext 1131 (office)
717-514-6902 (cell)
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