@Methuselas
I like what you did and yes, you shouldn't have used the said icons without the artist's permission, but he should have been more descreet and polite about it. He didn't have to bash you openly, in a public forum.
This is not the first time he steals other's artwork. It's always by "accident".
That's the problem with the Amiga scene right now
This was NEVER about the use of someone else's icons.
This is about stealing copyrighted artwork, nothing else.
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