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Subject: Re: About Ferret

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:48:35 08/29/01

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On August 29, 2001 at 08:38:17, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On August 29, 2001 at 05:37:10, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 29, 2001 at 05:06:21, Derrick Daniels wrote:
>>
>>>On August 29, 2001 at 03:54:30, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 29, 2001 at 03:34:11, Sergei Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I see Ferret got good results during the championship.
>>>>>Is Ferret the new name of an old program like Quest is the new name of Fritz ?
>>>>>If Ferret is a new program, where is can you download it or order the CD ?
>>>>
>>>>Ferret is a known program and you cannot download it.
>>>>There is no CD for Ferret and it is not commercial program
>>>>
>>>>You can send an email to bruce moreland and tell him how much money
>>>>you agree to pay for ferret.
>>>>
>>>>It is clear that 100$ is not enough for you to get it(otherwise
>>>>it could be commercial) but I guess that
>>>>10,000,000$ is more than enough so it is only
>>>>a question of money and only bruce can tell you the price.
>>>>
>>>>There is no public price for Ferret and bruce does not need to make
>>>>the minimal price public.
>>>>
>>>>He may lose from doing the minimal price public.
>>>>For example if the minimal price is 1,000,000$ and somebody suggests
>>>>2,000,000$ then it means that he is going to lose 1,000,000$.
>>>>
>>>>I guess that nobody is going to ask bruce to buy Ferret
>>>>for these prices but I may be wrong and one person
>>>>who is very rich may be enough to prove that my guess is wrong.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>
>>>  You are joking right? Why would anyone pay that kind of money for a program,
>>>which is beneath the top five commericial programs? Just charity to Mr. Moreland
>>>perhaps?
>>
>>I am not sure that ferret is not in the top five and I have not enough
>>information to know but even if it is not in the top five that
>>is clearly possible people buy programs that are not the best
>>in playing games for other reasons.
>
>
>
>Uri,
>
>as you said you know very little about it, actually close to nothing, but you
>managed to write several posts on this topic, even suggesting that Ferret's
>price is between $100 and $10.000.000 (which seems extremely accurate, but
>actually I do not know more than you).
>
>Are you trying to get some beauty prize for these posts, or something like that?
>:)
>
>Like Derrick, I was assuming you were joking. :)
>
>
>    Christophe

If posting on purpose something that cause people to smile or to laughis
means joking  then I admit that I was joking but
it does not contradict the fact that I meant to every word that
I wrote.

Uri



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