Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 02:26:56 12/23/97
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On December 23, 1997 at 00:30:39, Komputer Korner wrote: >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. Bollocks. > That is vastly >different from my position. I report and do reviews on every type of >chess software possible. > I am a journalist. This is, of course, also bollocks. You are a computer chess fan nutter, and you like the sight of your own posts. Let's be quite honest about it. > I have written and have >been paid for software articles about computer chess for over 11 years. And written and not been paid, we have also been told. And plagiarised and not been paid too. >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'm not going to let you hide behind this self-appointed journalist title. > 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. And I'm the archangel gabriel too ? Korner, you published the Rebel bust for your own purposes. Be honest about it. You reckoned you'ld be the great scoop journalist. Your only defence is that you're just releasing information, information that was already in circulation; that no law is broken; and that, if Ed is so silly as to leave his program open, then its his own lookout. Instead you woffle on about about journalism and email warnings and consumer protection and all your other self-justifying bullshit. Either take an honest defensive postion or grovel on the floor, but please don't keep on taxing everybody with squirming twaddle. Chris Whittington > > >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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