Re: About 1WSW's recent PR attempts...

[lorend@pro-scat.cts.com (Loren Damewood)]

In <2oh8ir$cea@panix.com> blakjak@panix.com (Noah Mittman) writes:

>A few words describing the Dr. Tom releases:
>It's come to my attention, speaking with him, that such sector-edited
>programs such as Omnipaint, DMCS, and Tetris were never meant to be uploaded
>_anywhere_. In fact, he had not even heard of the uploads of DMCS and Tetris
>until I had relayed some of the messages of this discussion to him, but
>recognized them as programs he had practiced sector-editing on. As Tom tells

Interesting choices for practice subjects, and methods.

>me, these were personal experiments that had been passed along within the
>group, and had somehow been removed from the confines of the group, and
>uploaded with the intent of making him look like a looney.

Nothing could've been released if he hadn't done the editing.

>A quick sobering point - Who in their right mind, as someone who only
>wants to support the GS community, _would_ upload unchanged, sector-edited
>software? It's not hard to realise that this could be the work of someone
>who wanted to tarnish his name.
>Spectrum was sent to him to be beta-tested, although he has no modem. It was
>circulated with 7 Hills knowledge to other members of the team WITH modems,
>and it had removed like the above programs.
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This is not entirely clear, but it looks a lot like you are saying that the
beta version of Spectrum had also been sector-edited, for distribution to
others. Hmm, very interesting. Just practicing, though, right?

I kinda wish this discussion would wind down; seems to me that most folks
already have a pretty accurate notion what went on. On the other hand, it's a
_lot_ more closely related to the Apple II than questions about sexual
exploits and legalities related to them. On with the show!  ;-)

Loren