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Subject: Re: Please Ed, take Rebel Decade 2.0 off of your site before you go bankrupt

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 15:50:02 12/22/97

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On December 22, 1997 at 14:06:08, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>
>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?

Because you're all robots with the same thoughts.

Because you all love to kill, especially when there's no danger of
counterattack.

Because its makes you all feel better to be right, especially by
somebody else being wrong.

Because most of you have 2mm deep morality, and you reckon this turns
into 2 meters deep by attacking the defenceless.

Keep on kicking him guys, its real fun for you all, eh ?

Chris Whittington


> 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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