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Subject: Re: SSDF and the autoplayer

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 04:11:25 11/10/98

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>>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 -

>My advice Ed,
>don't let your argues with SSDF affect your customers.
>They don't care about SSDF, they care about Rebel10.

>Make the patch for downloading. Keep selling the CDroms as is.
>
>//Peter

>make the patch and keep the cdroms as is.


Ok, makes sense. I give in. There will be an upgrade anyway and I will
include (hopefully improved) auto232 support as well then.

- Ed -



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