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Originally Posted by haertig
Giving credit to a phantom who wants to remain a phantom is (1) not an easy task, (2) probably an inappropriate thing to attempt in the first place, given the authors apparent desire to remain a phantom.
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Nonsense.
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Thanks to The Dark Reverser, Apprentice Alf, I ♥ Cabbages, Apprentice Harper, NoDrm, and all those who helped them make it possible for DRM to be removed from ebooks. Without them we couldn't possibly do what we do.
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Nobody's suggesting they "out" anyone. They're saying acknowledging that they didn't actually create 99.9% of the code themselves (and thanking those who did) would go a long way toward reducing the sleaze factor.
People do that sort of anonymous "
you know who you are..." thanking/attribution all the time. Like a lot of book dedications. Just a bit of a casual, anonymous, provenance statement would be nice. And not at all difficult or dangerous.
EDIT: almost forgot I ♥ Cabbages!