Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:07:56 05/22/01
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On May 22, 2001 at 15:04:43, John Merlino wrote: >On May 22, 2001 at 07:09:24, Volker Richey wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>please give me your CCT3 Hardware spec. >> >>http://www.vrichey.de/cct3 >> >>bye >> >>volker > >Unfortunately, I have bad news. Our legal department has told us that people who >are not employees of Ubi Soft (or are otherwise under contract with us, such as >Johan) cannot "represent" our products in "official" tournaments. So, sadly, I >am going to have to withdraw CM8000 from the CCT3. > >I thought about mentioning that ALL SORTS of tournaments that are equally >"official" have been run by people using various versions of Chessmaster, but >decided against it, not knowing how zealous our new legal folks at Ubi Soft >might decide to be. Oh swell. Are Chessfun's CM tournaments illegal now? How about the dozens of other CM tournaments strewn about the web like snowflakes in a breeze? Tell your legal department that they are a bunch of ... Never mind. They'll probably sue. Look how it turned out for others who said, "You can't use my program in tournaments." Not as well as those that allow it. It doesn't matter greatly to me. There will always be freely available programs that I can play with as I choose. It looks like cowardice and smells like cutting off your nose to spite your face. FCOL.
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