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Old 07-31-03, 05:44 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally posted by deftech
Just as a note, nobody is going to be banned from the site. But people who participated in this ordeal have lost my respect, as well as the respect of many others around here....especially those who are in the software development industry. I know that losing someone's respect probably doesn't mean much to you, but it does to me. Even if you do "come out ahead" at the end of this mess, it does not justify any of your actions.
Please delete my account then. This whole issue has been grossly mismanaged and I do not wish to be someone's moral scapegoat. All that I and a few others did was see whether the patch could be made to work on existing 2002 machines purely out of curiousity. If you wish to believe that the reason Dell took the patch of the site was because of that thread, then you are simply naive. At no time did we think we were doing anything illicit or illegal and the moment that a moderator stepped in to ask us to stop the discussion about what happened, we stopped. If there what we were doing was so horrific, then the thread should have been deleted the moment a moderator saw that it was there.

Good bye. Please delete my account.