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Subject: Re: SSDF and the autoplayer

Author: Bert Seifriz

Date: 02:08:17 11/10/98

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On November 10, 1998 at 03:31:48, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>some programmers do not care about their customer base, but I think that Ed
>>does, and I hope he will do the right thing A.S.A.P. Because it is not SSDF that
>>pays the bills, it is his customer base.
>
>I can assure you no revenge or similar feelings are involved in my decision. I
>just have practical objections.
>
>As you all know I have argued against hidden autoplayers. This from February
>till August/September. In public as well in email with the SSDF. I then dropped
>the whole issue as no compromise was hanging in the air as the SSDF rejected
>my wish to exclude hidden autoplayers for future testing.
>
>So Rebel10 was released without auto232 based on the above.
>
>I am not prepared to make a patch for a) reasons of time b) costs.
>
>I am not prepared to trash all Rebel10 cdroms in my office. I am not
>prepared to make costs for a new master and have the thing duplicated
>another xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx times because it took the SSDF 8-9 months to
>come to the same conclusion I have argued for so long. The (good) news
>just came one month too late.
>
>- Ed -

Hi, I have a FEELING that the autoplayer is right
on the Rebel 10 CD. Just find the right input you guys
and it will open up. New CDs are not necessary. A small
patch on the REBEL homepage would certainly also do.
Bert



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