Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 20:07:00 09/13/98
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On September 13, 1998 at 19:36:09, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On September 13, 1998 at 16:40:43, Shaun Graham wrote: > >>On September 13, 1998 at 08:15:04, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: >> >>> >>>On September 12, 1998 at 16:04:57, Shaun Graham wrote: >>> >>>> You have no right whatsoever to try to force people not to test a product to >>>>see how strong it is, let alone resorting to this almost blackmale tactic. >>> >>>As a programmer I feel that I must respond to this. Any program is the personal >>>property of the programmer (unless he or she is specifically employed to write >>>for someone else). If Ed chooses to hide the Rebel Auto232 support, or to leave >>>it out altogether, then that is his business, and if you or I don't like it, >>>then we do not have to purchase the program. By all means voice your >>>disapproval, but that does not mean that Ed does not have *the right* do do as >>>he sees fit with his own program regardless of whether it is popular or not. >>> >> >>Of course he has the right to put in an autoplayer or not, hide it or whatever. >>What i am arguing against is his attempt to use it in a blackmail fashion to >>stop purchasers of the program from doing what is legally their right to do(in >>other words test it). You keep calling it his program, once he sells it that >>program is no longer his "personal property" except that he is entitled to such >>things as copywrite protection. > >What's your problem? You are being offered a product. If you don't like it, >don't buy it. Why would you call this blackmail? > You really should read the beggining of a thread before you start complaining!! Shroeder posted that he plans to put an autoplayer in rebel 10 but wont tell anyone how to use it unless the ssdf promises not to test it. So essentially what he is saying is this "If you ssdf do not promise to not test my program then the whole world can blame you for not being able to autoplay a product they have purchased." In otherwords blackmail.
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