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Subject: Re: Nothing wrong nor deceiving...

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:55:55 01/03/00

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On January 03, 2000 at 22:28:06, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 03, 2000 at 22:18:51, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>[snip]
>>It is easy to understand: the word rebel in the comb Rebel-Tiger is deceiving in
>>the limited and specific sense that certain people, specially new one here in
>>CCC, like the guy that posted about this issue,  can think that Tiger is
>>enterely an Ed Schroeder product as Century is. And it is not, right? It is
>>your, Christophe, even if you, as Dan say and I agree, you and ed benefited and
>>took some ideas from your partnership.
>>So nothing wrong and "deceiving" with my explanation, or, if I am wrong, nothing
>>purposely aimed to hurt nobody.
>
>I think I see your meaning:
>People associate "Rebel" with Ed.  So they may think that Ed wrote the entire
>package.  I think the Rebel web site is pretty clear on the contributions of
>Christophe.  Anyway, it should be generally known that all the major
>functionality of CT is from 'the other CT'.  But Ed surely has given him some
>good ideas.  On the other hand, I think that CT will benefit from the Rebel
>monicker, since it is well known.  Having the 'Rebel' tag appended will mean
>instant market recognition.  I think the whole idea is really a pretty good
>marketing idea, and should make both Ed and Christophe a lot of money.


You got it right, Dann.

We could also say that the Rebel family is simply expanding. After Rebel
6-7-8-9-10 and Century, here is the little brother: Rebel-Tiger.


    Christophe



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