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Subject: Re: The secrets of Rebel

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 23:55:04 12/30/02

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On December 31, 2002 at 02:00:38, Frank Schneider wrote:

>On December 30, 2002 at 03:17:38, Martin Giepmans wrote:
>
>>Yesterday, when I woke up from my (off line) Christmas sleep
>>and logged on to CCC, the news was everywhere:
>>
>>  *** Ed reveals his secrets! ***
>>
>>Astonishing!
>>
>>Basically I agree with what others have said about it.
>>It is a very nice thing to do, a wonderful Christmas present.
>>
>>But there are also other feelings.
>>Imagine a programmer who has worked for years to improve his
>>engine. He has discovered many ideas that Ed also discovered,
>>or similar ones. These ideas gave his engine an edge and
>>of course he has never revealed them to anyone.
>
>
>Hi,
>
>afaik, Ed and Christophe have cooperated and exchanged ideas for some time.
>However, I don't think Ed will publish them, even if they are used in Rebel.

That is a correct observation Frank, Christophe's stuff is of course excluded to
be listed.

Ed



>>Then, one day he logges on to CCC and ...
>>How would this programmer feel?
>
>Some of Eds ideas are also used by Gromit (details differ, but the
>general idea is the same), but some others are interesting and I'll try
>them. So I really appreciate his effort and don't feel bad about it.
>
>Frank
>
>
>
>>Not too happy, I guess!
>>
>>Martin



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