Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:25:45 04/17/01
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On April 18, 2001 at 00:30:01, Peter Berger wrote:
>You wrote a long well-worded article . I have no idea if the SSDF people are
>nice or bad guys : judging from most of their posts here or elsewhere they sound
>rather level-headed .
>
>Nevertheless your article is just what you accuse Mr Weiner of : DISINFORMATION
>!
>
>Reading it carefully shows you didn't really answer to mine at all , or did I
>miss something ?
>
>It boils down to a simple question : why don't they simply take Shredder 5 or
>Deep Shredder NOW , test it and post the results on their list now ?
>
>I guess there's simply _no_ obvious answer to this question . I can only
>speculate that this has to do with some old battles I don't know and can't
>comment on .
>
>So I repost my list ( little mistake eliminated and new point added ) :
>
>a.) SSDF was forbidden to test Shredder 4
>b.) SSDF complained .
>c.) SSDF was allowed to test Shredder 5
>d.) SSDF rejected and said they only wanted to test Shredder if they could test
>any other program by Millenium , too .
>e.) Millenium agreed to this but pointed out they can only make this statement
>for programs where they still hold the rights .
>f.) SSDF rejected to test Shredder 5 again and brought up the issue of an
>unpayed invoice of 500 DM of some years ago ( which never was mentioned
>before ) .
>g.) Millenium offered to provide free copies for the testers to make up for the
>unclear invoice issue .
>
>Btw , it seems to me some of these guys really have a _good_ memory :-) :
>
>http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/17187.htm
>
>Speaking lowly of Shredder because of its missing in the SSDF list makes no
>sense to me ; your post would make more sense if it _was_ tested and was ranked
>25 .
>
>pete
In a few words: I do not accuse Shredder or Stefan.
But I know who is responsible for this situation, and is actually glad of
keeping it this way.
Christophe
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