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Technology Stocks : SNNT - Synthonics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Rust who wrote (131)	7/23/1998 2:27:00 AM
From: Kirby from Idaho	Respond to of 209

Thanks for your upbeat response Bob. I'm glad to have another believer to discuss the upside potential of SNNT. As I mentioned in previous notes on this thread, I've been here a long time and plan to stay. I am not technically up to speed, but I know character. I'm still betting on the jockey! Just an interesting thought. Since Henry's announcement to never enter this discussion again, he has posted more times than before. Do you suppose his word is as valid as his information? Food for thought? Perhaps he feels it his duty to save us all. I am not normally skeptical, but I still question the motive. And one more thing, do you get the feeling that there is much more than 1 or 2 sources feeding him information? It may be that Synthonics has struck a nerve or two or three...(Personally, I have a job that beckons every day and no one, except someone with grundles of money AND time to burn, would take it upon himself to save us at great personal sacrifice). Motive? It's not clear yet. I welcome the competition, if it truly exists. If it does, and his name happens to be Goliath, then we're David and you know the rest of that story. One final thought. Those who claim that something cannot be done, are usually standing in the way of those actually doing it. See you at the top of the heap! Kirby from Idaho

To: Bob Rust who wrote (131)	7/23/1998 6:05:00 AM
From: Henry	Respond to of 209

All my spare $ is invested in my business at the moment. I trust my ability as a programmer and marketer to generate 100% growth per annum more than a risky stock I can never know enough about. If I do invest in stocks, it will be in mutual funds (let the experts do it for me) or conservative investments in companies that I know will never lose such as Microsoft. In which case, I won't need to watch the stocks on a daily basis. My motivation to be here is that is it a distraction from programming and I feel I am doing a favor to some people. Like I said, I really hate companies that try to patent software. I think it concentrates power to the big software companies and stiffles innovation and stiffles lowering the cost of software. Luckily, software patents are inherently easy to work around in most cases. Even the ubiqutous GIF graphics format (Unisys infamous LZW patent) will be subverted with the coming widesread support of PNG. Web graphics will eventually be PNG and JPG, not GIF and JPG. Also, I never liked Synthonics' practice of hyping "photogrammetry on a PC" as their own invention, especially since their technical implementation is comparative weak. It seemed too close to a lie to me. So, then when I discovered they were awarded a patent that could impact my work, I had to go thru all the research effort to make sure I wouldn't infringe and build prior art war chest evidence. This blew my top and I decided to expose them for what they really are and have. In other words, they pulled my away from my nice programming world so since I ws pulled away, I might as well go for the distraction (illogial I know). Don't get me wrong. I do think photogrammetry can make $, just not enough to cover Synthonics' $3 million capitalization (and growing) and still return a fair annualized profit to those who have been in for a year or more. I am trying to balance my statements a little so I don't affect the price of the stock because you all do seem like really nice people and I don't want to hurt you all. That is not my intention. Good Luck, Henry