Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 11:48:01 12/20/97
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>On December 20, 1997 at 07:11:20, Mike Byrne wrote: > >> >>you became part of the problem and not part of the solution > ><snipped> On December 20, 1997 at 07:43:10, Chris Whittington answered: >If I screw up such as to let the universe get free copies of my program, >then that's my fault and problem; not the deliverer's of the message. > >Its not KK's responsibility to point out to Ed that Ed screwed. If KK >views himself as a journo, then its for him to publicise if he wants; no >laws broken. It's not a question of laws broken. It's a question of what is fair and what is simply egocentric. >There is no cartel of producers and assorted KK's and others, whose task >it is to protect each other from blunders. No, but there are some beta testers, journalists and others who know the programmers since long. The ususal way for the smart ones (not only the nice ones!) of these is to give the porgrammer a chance before making something public which might hurt his interests. Korner by the way was quite conscious about this: this is why he tried to inform Ed. His only fault was that his own interest in being the one spreading the news was more important to him than respecting the - easy to guess - original intention of the programmer concerning the Rebel9 engine. It's a question of trustworthiness amoung people who know each othe and have dealt with each othe quite a time. You'll probably guess what comes into my mind concerning this topic... >Ed screwed up, it up to Ed to recover, not to attack KK for divulging >the screw up. Yes, if you look at it in a superficial way. No, if you have a high estimate for reliable and fair relations - even if it's not about friendship, but just about some longer aqaintance. >Finally, if this was a Mindscape screw up with Chessmaster 5000, I doubt >very much that anybody here would be concerned. I think it highly likely >tthat the mechanism for exploiting the screw up would be happily posted >here, without complaint from anyone. Even in this case it would not have been fair. This the more among people knowing each other quite well. >So stop playing clique-ish games. I'm glad there still are two or three things beyond simple egos and simple cliques playing games - even below the level of real friendship. ;-) >Chris Whittington Kind regards from Dirk
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