Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 04:11:20 12/20/97
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On December 20, 1997 at 04:05:49, Komputer Korner wrote: >This latest episode with Rebel Decade boils down to a question of >integrity. and judgement..I don't question your integrity...but your judgement is lacking in this one instance .. >Ed thinks that I should have given him much more time before >posting my KK tip of the Week # 39. I believe he is correct >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. you became part of the problem and not part of the solution > 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. sounds like a victom statement ;i.e., you are making excuses > 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 thank god.... >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? yes... better luck next time
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