Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 21:46:24 09/23/98
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On September 23, 1998 at 14:58:40, Ossie Weiner wrote: >Hi Bruce [Moreland], > ><<< Since this was sent to me, I'll feel free to respond to it. >I'm not sure how it came about, but it seems like you guys all ended up >supporting Auto232 at about the same time. You all could test against each >other, and nobody had the advantage of being able to autotest against people >who couldn't autotest back. >I'm not sure how this fragile balance was maintained, but perhaps it was >because everyone wanted to make sure that their thing was testable by the >Swedish folks, who want to do testing via Auto232. >> > >So far, so good. In case people are wondering where this all came from, there was some large-distribution email going around a few days ago that looked like it was going to turn into another big argument about the "secret autoplayer" controversy. Ossi has taken my response to that email and responded to it here. I'm not sure if all of my email is here, I haven't looked, but that's me talking between the "<<<" and ">>", and Ossi talking otherwise. My position, in short, was that I thought that these guys should send auto232-enabled versions to the Swedish folks, but not to the public. This would prevent them from autotesting against each other, and would prevent end-users from autotesting, but it would also keep people from getting an advantage by preventing others from autotesting against them while allowing themselves to autotest against others. bruce bruce
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