Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 14:28:55 12/23/97
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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. > >Bollocks. No - nice idea: Chris , you have to pay me for the last 5 years ! HAHA ! Now I got you ! This will be expensive for you !! :-) >> I am a journalist. Ahem. :-) >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. This is a difficult job for KK. >> 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 ? Erzengel Gabriel ? Aha. I thought I know you from somewhere.... :-) > >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. :-) Happy christmas !!! > >Chris Whittington
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