Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:49:36 12/30/00
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On December 30, 2000 at 12:46:53, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Blas: >Maybe there is another reason besides that of money you guess -or joke about- as >one reason. Once you have made public your program, you becomes a prisoner of it >in order to keep it all the time in good shape. He should be compeled to upgrade >it in a regular shedule so his program would not become easy prey of nobody. >Then it would not be anymore a thing of pleasure but of pain. Bruce probably >-in fact, surely- has another more important occupation than to program chess, >so he does not want that such a thing happens. Thinks in this: he delivers the >program and for a moment all people praise him, but a month later the programs >becomes somewhat obsolete or lose a game to this or that program and critics and >ugly comments begins. He wants that? Specially, who wants that IF the program >was top and won a tourn or almost? Then you are not a guy that is just climbing >step by step as Ulrich with Comet does, but the champ or almost cham defending >your tittle or almost tittle. Heavy task to do. >Happy new year >fernando I like this response Fernando! But... I said so a long time ago, and I'm sticking to it, I hope Bruce NEVER releases Ferret. I prefer that it remain a program that I'll never be able to get a copy of. Not that I don't want a copy of Ferret. Why? Well, to understand that try to relate it to one of my other hobbies, I like finding CD copies of the best albums that I had on vinyl, but now I'm dangerously close to completing that collection, because there are almost none that I have left to get. After I finish getting the CDs, I'll have them, but the hobby will be gone. Almost the same thing with Chess programs and Ferret, it's obviously ONE of the best programs I could possibly run on a PC, but after that what would I do? I could download Chess programs and buy commercial Chess programs till I'm blue in the face, but I could never get Ferret. And I'm pretty happy about that, because one of the programs I can't get is one of the best, and from a collector's standpoint, that's a good thing. Pete
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