I agree about the stiffing the guys that brought you to the party, that was 100% the DotCom plan, offer crap salary and tonnes of "options" then fire/replace all the people that worked for _FREE_ practically when the next round of funding comes in, rinse, repeat.
Either way . . . I think the guy needs to move on. I know I would. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
