Author: Mark Young
Date: 00:52:13 11/10/98
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On November 10, 1998 at 03:31:48, Ed Schröder wrote: >>>Some people need a long time to do something normal. >>>ChessBase took months to decide something that is obvious. >>>The damage that they have done to computerchess is IMO very big. >>>and cannot be taken back soon. > >>I hope that some kind of revenge factor does not play into Ed’s decision when to >>put auto player support back into Rebel 10. He has enough pissed off customers >>as it is, and the sooner we can put this mess behind us the better. I know that >>some programmers do not care about their customer base, but I think that Ed >>does, and I hope he will do the right thing A.S.A.P. Because it is not SSDF that >>pays the bills, it is his customer base. > >I can assure you no revenge or similar feelings are involved in my decision. I >just have practical objections. > >As you all know I have argued against hidden autoplayers. This from February >till August/September. In public as well in email with the SSDF. I then dropped >the whole issue as no compromise was hanging in the air as the SSDF rejected >my wish to exclude hidden autoplayers for future testing. > >So Rebel10 was released without auto232 based on the above. > >I am not prepared to make a patch for a) reasons of time b) costs. No way to put a download on your site to give autoplayer support to Rebel10, I am not a programmer so I don't know, but if this is done no need to trash the CDroms if you can just upgrade them after the install. I don't know how much time it would take to do this if you wanted to, or how much it would cost you. So I will have to take your word that it can't be done for the reason you give, and I will accept it. :( > >I am not prepared to trash all Rebel10 cdroms in my office. I am not >prepared to make costs for a new master and have the thing duplicated >another xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx times because it took the SSDF 8-9 months to >come to the same conclusion I have argued for so long. The (good) news >just came one month too late. > >- Ed -
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