You can continue to attack LCT (and now his former staff) based on a single experience you had, 20+ years ago. You can even be rude by labeling me a "fanboy" -- apparently you have that prerogative as a site administrator. Not a darned thing I can do about it, except continue to shake my head...
What some refuse to acknowledge, despite being obvious, is their comments said a lot more about them, than LCT/CS/GSM.
I have given no attack. I have made it clear the knife world is full of friendly, helpful, humble people, and LT is not those things, and has frequently profited off the intellectual property of others. If pure statements of fact constitute "attacks" in your world view, some deep introspection might be in order.
I tend to be a Spyderco fanboy (so obviously I don't consider it an inherent insult), though I am quick to point out where I disagree with design choices. If you need to be insulted, you have my leave, but that's on you. I bet your head hurts from all the shaking, poor guy.
I have of course seen LCT since then, but have never considered it worth my time to try engaging him again. (I also don't consider Minecraft or a billion other things worth my time, if you also need to feel insult on all those things' behalf.)
I will confess to not being heartbroken if an honest, fair (based on personal interaction, then
observation for 24 years) evaluation gives someone gripe. As I said, despite contracting out other people's designs, usually with no compensation to the original designers, "I appreciate that Special Projects made a lot of cool items, frequently at extremely reasonable prices.". It's also true that Demko has done some good work.
<-------- (See how fair that was? I didn't even mention CS's practice of calling their steels proprietary names, so they could change the composition whenever they wanted.)
Cheers,
John