Re: GDW Virus Vultures

> Contrast this with the 'Vampire' ships GDW suddenly 'came up with'.
> *MY* fleet had a source of repair parts and the Muscles to repair
> themselves!  Theirs will malfunction when they miss their annual
> maintainance!
>
> Now, I'm *REAL* *SURE* GDW came up with this one on their own.
> Yeah!  Right!  And Nobody ever saw George's stuff on watercraft
> design either!  And Everybody at GDW just *FORGOT* that Rob Dean
> did virtually *ALL* the ship designs for *TWO* recent releases.

First of all, the idea of virus is nothing new, I'm sure your story
wasn't the first one which use the idea. For the past several years,
computer virus has been getting lots of publicity, just because
you send them a story which has virus as an important concept, and
they have this organic chip id system which works like a virus
hardly implies they stole the idea from you.

And as far as Rob's design wasn't ackknowledged in the magazine
article, my understanding was that it was a typesetting mistake.
They simply omited it by accident.