Author: Derrick Daniels
Date: 23:23:04 08/29/01
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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$. >>> >>>I guess that nobody is going to ask bruce to buy Ferret >>>for these prices but I may be wrong and one person >>>who is very rich may be enough to prove that my guess is wrong. >>> >>>Uri >> >> >> You are joking right? Why would anyone pay that kind of money for a program, >>which is beneath the top five commericial programs? Just charity to Mr. Moreland >>perhaps? > >I am not sure that ferret is not in the top five and I have not enough >information to know but even if it is not in the top five that >is clearly possible people buy programs that are not the best >in playing games for other reasons. > >It is clear that Ferret is going to have a small number of >buyers even if the price is 50$ >Now if one of the same people who are going to buy Ferret for 50$ >get 5,000,000,000$ then he is going to have no reason >not to buy ferret for 10,000,000$ because in that case 10,000,000$ >is nothing for the buyer. > >It is only Bruce's bad luck that the intersection between >the set of the small number of very rich people and >the small number of people >who are interested in buying Ferret is empty. > >Uri I think three years ago probally everyone here would not hesitate to buy ferret, now ferret has been surpassed by the new generation of programms like tiger and junior, but in it's day ferret was probally better then fritz which was the best at that time.
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