Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:06:08 12/22/97
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On December 21, 1997 at 23:11:07, Komputer Korner wrote: >I am really getting pissed off at the attacks on me over this. If you >want to turn me into becoming even more of a consumer advocate keep on >attacking me. I did nothing wrong. ED distributed a free program that That is complete and utter bullshit. You did do something wrong. If you haven't figured it out yet, I don't suppose you ever will. Why do you think you have been castigated on this issue over and over, by so many different people? Clearly a significant portion of the population takes issue with your action. >someone discovered and had already posted that there was an opportunity >to obtain a stronger engine. I simply posted the exact way to do this >after someone had tipped me on this. So the info was already public >knowledge. It turns out that Ed had already pulled the program and my It is a lucky thing for Schroder BV that they had already noticed the problem after a previous poster's comment. That does not mitigate in the slightest the inappropriateness of your action. >only omission was I forgot to check on this before releasing the info. >Rebel Decade has more than 40 features less than Rebel 9. They are not >the same program. But even so, I still took steps to warn Ed of this >even to the poiint of telephoning his house at 2:00 am Dutch time. If >had not attempted to warn Ed, would people still be attacking me? Do They might be attacking you with even more vehemance. If you encounter a similar situation in the future, consider informing the software author and not the rest of the world. -- Dave Gomboc
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