Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:44:44 12/01/03
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On December 01, 2003 at 11:03:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 01, 2003 at 05:59:30, martin fierz wrote: > >>On December 01, 2003 at 04:43:04, Tony Werten wrote: >> >>>On December 01, 2003 at 04:20:55, martin fierz wrote: >>> >>>>On November 30, 2003 at 22:42:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>[snip] >>>> >>>>>It was handled _poorly_. The author's reputation is ruined no matter what >>>>>happens. Were it me, I'd be contacting my attorney and ICGA would be >>>>>taking out a huge loan or going bankrupt... >>>> >>>>forget it - the ICGA can run it's tournaments as it likes. the rules are clear, >>>>they can demand to inspect your code. it doesn't matter why they demand to >>>>inspect your code, they have the right to do so. if you don't show your code, >>>>they have the right to throw you out of the tournament. >>> >>>How about some moral obligation to protect young people from making a mistake >>>wich, as they most likely don't realise, could haunt them for a very long time ? >>> >>>We're not talking about something he'll get over with in a couple of days. >>> >>>Tony >> >>i was answering bob's (very american) idea of dragging the ICGA to court for >>what happened. as i *also* wrote, i don't like the way things were handled. one >>thing has nothing to do with the other though. there is no court case here, >>that's what i meant to say. >> >>cheers >> martin >> > >Look at the definitions for libel. slander, and reputation. His >reputation has been badly damaged. If it was unjust, look out. you certainly can't do anything to the ICGA for throwing you out of the tournament. you might be able to do something if they accused you of being a clone, and you provided proofs and they threw you out anyway, saying you were a cloner. as long as they say "we got a complaint about program X, asked the author to show us the source code like it's written in the tournament rules, he didn't provide the code, so we threw him out of the tournament", there is no libel or slander involved. those are all facts. no law forbids publishing facts... cheers martin > >> >> >>> >>>> >>>>i'm not saying i like what happenend, but there is nothing to sue for here. >>>> >>>>cheers >>>> martin
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