Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 21:30:39 12/22/97
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Thorsten, you are essentially working for a software company who produces a chess product. You may not get paid but you are still a chess software company worker CSTAL -Oxford Softworks. That is vastly different from my position. I report and do reviews on every type of chess software possible. I am a journalist. I have written and have been paid for software articles about computer chess for over 11 years. I don't owe any programmers any favours and I can't favour any one of them over the others. My position as helping newbies on the r.g.c.c. also is sort of the role of a journalist. I have also done beta testing on more programs than anyone I know and have even been paid by one software company for beta testing. My beta testing doesn't put me in any conflict because while I am beta testing I am limited by law to respecting the programmer's wishes on release of information. The fact that friendships develop over this is a good thing but I always have to remember why I am doing this. It is to give the consumer as much information as possible on computer chess products. On December 22, 1997 at 05:57:34, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On December 22, 1997 at 01:27:53, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On December 22, 1997 at 01:15:09, Komputer Korner wrote: >> >>>But I do not accept that you accuse me of dishonesty or of lacking >>>integrity. >> >>I don't think you are dishonest and lack integrity, nor did I post this. >> >>bruce > >Right, and it is not the question if he is dishonest or has lack >integrity. > >The problem was that it would have been better NOT to post "information" >like that. > >And we should stop calling somebody a "journalist" or define how a >journalist has to behave. I don't think that any of us, despite Friedel >is maybe a journalist. I thought we are a bunch of hobby-writers. >It's fun. Although you should act responsible for what you do. > >"Journalist" is a label and has also many prejudices included. > >Let us behave like friends, please.
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