For clarification, it went down more like this: 1) Dodger asked Yarp if he could share the secret behind the RSR file format. 2) Yarp replied to the effect that Senosoft is a commercial company and made like Dodger was asking for the source code of the program. 3) Dodger said, 'Okay, I'll ask CL and see what I can figure out on my own. You realise, however, that if I work this out on my own, I'll be posting it all over the poserverse.' This was said simply to explain to yarp that he'd just walked into an irony. Since he was considering it a 'trade secret', and since Dodger was likely to work it out on his own, Dodger wanted to make Yarp aware that he was in a bit of a catch-22. If Yarp declined to share the big secret, and Dodger worked out the big secret on his own, the big secret was not going to be a big secret, because Dodger doesn't operate that way. 4) Yarp didn't reply. 5) Dodger figured it out. 6) Dodger posted about it. 7) Yarp claimed that Dodger was attacking him, both in that thread and in a seperate smear campaign, here. The moral of this story seems to be that if you're going to have trade secrets, make them good ones, lest someone figure out the same thing and make your trade secret not-so-secret.

I'm the asshole. You wanna be a shit? You gotta go through ME.