Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:02:50 12/20/97
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On December 20, 1997 at 07:43:10, Chris Whittington wrote: > >On December 20, 1997 at 07:11:20, Mike Byrne wrote: > >> >>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 > ><snipped> > >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. > >There is no cartel of producers and assorted KK's and others, whose task >it is to protect each other from blunders. > >Ed screwed up, it up to Ed to recover, not to attack KK for divulging >the screw up. > >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. > >So stop playing clique-ish games. > >Chris Whittington Actually, if everyone would sit back and relax, KK wasn't the *first* to point out this screwup, based on what I saw in R.G.C.C today. He shouldn't have divulged the bug. True. Ed shouldn't have let such a bug slip thru either. True (in fact, I can't figure out how this could even happen, I mean why even include new code in something for free?). But the final conclusion is everyone screwed up... :)
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