If you are going to post a private email, you should at least post what you sent him first so we can all see what he responded to. I'm not saying he should have replied the way he did, I'm just saying that context is everything.
By your own admission, you have a fixed view, so why did you bother to email him ? Were you trolling him ?
His company can't be making much money if he is wasting time replying to someone he believes will never be a customer.
