Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:54:02 09/14/98
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On September 13, 1998 at 23:07:00, Shaun Graham wrote: >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. If you want to make such outrageous statements, at least go to your local Webster's and look up the definition of "blackmail". This is *not* blackmail.
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