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From: "David Braben"
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Subject: Re: Outgoing Missile - Apologies
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:12:54 -0000
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Paul Roberts wrote in message ...
>Just wondered if everybody knew this yet or not. My apologies if I'm weeks
>behind on this one.
No - it was your post that drew my attention to it - I think it only went up
last night.
>It's on his "new" site at http://www.elite0.fsnet.co.uk/elite/
Thanks for this.
Apologies, though - I'm afraid I'm going to have to get this one pulled too
because of the libellous stuff and the misleading story of the CIX website.
I also note he's (well - I guess this is probably Ian - but it is not linked
to the Ian Bell site which is strange) revived the "who wrote what" stuff.
It is sad that this means so much to him after this much time, and that he
feels he needs to mislead people like this, especially the ship designs. I
suspect he's reading this so he may get a passing pang of guilt.
David Braben
www.frontier.co.uk
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Article: 36344 of alt.fan.elite
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From: "David Braben"
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Subject: Re: Outgoing Missile - Apologies
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 15:16:31 -0000
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Mike Lynch wrote in message <81jimg$hd5$1@gxsn.com>...
>im sorry if there ia anything wrong that i say here but please can you tell
>me what the point of taking down the site is? the source is for a bbc a
>computer which is no longer used. you cant be getting very much money out
of
>it and it looks to me like its a childish fight.
> steve
>p.s. i again express my aoplogies if anything is wrong.
My main objection, as I said, is the legal stuff - the libel, and the
misleading story of the CIX site. I have a mild objection to the
self-aggrandisment of the who-wrote-what stuff, but taking issue with that
would indeed be a childish fight.
David Braben
www.frontier.co.uk
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From: "David Braben"
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Subject: Re: Outgoing Missile - Apologies
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:57:34 -0000
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It appears now to be linked to the Ian Bell site, so I guess it is him!
David Braben
www.frontier.co.uk