Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 01:05:49 12/20/97
This latest episode with Rebel Decade boils down to a question of integrity. Ed thinks that I should have given him much more time before posting my KK tip of the Week # 39. My response to him was that I received the info from someone else and it was fast becoming public knowledge about being able to access the Rebel 9 engine within Rebel Decade 2.0. Based on how fast the web works and newsgroups in particular, I made the decision to publish the tip because it would have been published very quickly anyway.So I didn't want to get scooped by someone else. BUT at the same time I sent Ed and Rob (an email to both) that they should take Rebel Decade off of the site. I also made a long distance telephone call to the Netherlands but Ed wasn't home and he doesn't have voice maiI. I also placed a warning to Ed in this group about the matter. It turns out that Ed had already taken Rebel Decade off of the site anyway, but he is still extremely hurt that I would have published this as a Komputer Korner Tip of The Week on the r.g.c.c. Ed looks at it as a matter of trust and integrity and I look at it as a journalist who had public knowledge of info and didn't want to be scooped by someone else publishing this first. I would never have had any intention of ever intentionally hurting ED. I am not Rolf Tueschen after all. Since it was public knowledge, I did what i did, but remember I took the pains to telephone ED at 2:00 oclock in the morning Netherlands time and as I said I also sent emails. I have since talked to Ed , and he is indeed very troubled by my behaviour, but I explained to him that I am first a journalist and 2nd a friend. If I was the other way around, I never would be able to publish anything negative about any chess software if I would become friends with the programmers. I assured Ed that if I had been the one to discover this, I would not have published the tip without first consulting Ed. however since others had discovered this and pointed it out to me. I considered it public knowledge and acted the way I did. However so as not wanting intentionally to hurt Ed, I emailed him and telephoned his home to warn him. DID I DO WRONG HERE?
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