Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:17:57 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 08:48:35, Uri Blass wrote:
>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.
OK, so you were joking!
Christophe
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